Pearson PTE General — Study Guide
Free, topic-by-topic study notes for the Pearson PTE General exam. Read a chapter, then practice it.
Everyday Grammar
PTE General checks that you can use everyday English structures accurately. This chapter reviews narrative tenses, quantifiers, verb patterns, and wish clauses that appear in general communication.
Everyday Vocabulary
PTE General rewards a broad, natural vocabulary. This chapter looks at descriptive adjectives, common collocations, and useful compound words.
Building the Right Word
Word-form tasks ask you to change a base word to fit the sentence. This chapter shows how to read the gap and choose a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb.
Linking Words and Prepositions
Connectors and prepositions hold sentences together. This chapter covers dependent prepositions, prepositions of time, and linkers of condition and sequence.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
This chapter targets errors that even confident learners make: the gerund after 'look forward to', 'since' versus 'for', singular 'neither', and 'than' versus 'then'.
Practice by topic
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