Everybody knows how to use I, you, she, he, it, we, and they. These little words are called pronouns. They’re used as the subject of a sentence. That’s why they are called subject pronouns. The subject is the person or the thing that does something in the sentence. Examples: I walk to the grocery store.… Continue reading Subject and Object Pronouns: I, You, He, She, Etc.
When Your Friends May Not Be Famous Or Rich, but You Love Them. (Most of the Time.) Click on this link to watch the presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLGAm4Kpl_E You’ll learn how to make sentences with may or might be. This is not for beginners, I have to say, but it’s not difficult. There is an exercise inside… Continue reading May Be Might Be
Another Famous English Poem in an Easy Line-by-Line Explanation The World Is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon By William Wordsworth THE world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given… Continue reading Poetry Time – The World Is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon by William Wordsworth
Always wanted to make a movie? Now you can. On the website of Go Animate (goanimate.com) it will only take you a few minutes to make your own animated movie. In English, of course. All you need to do is write the dialogues. You don’t need to draw a thing. The programme converts your text… Continue reading The Easy Way to Make Your Own Movie in English
Image taken from Eviltwinbooking.com We’re going to start simple. Simple future is future with “will” + the first (basic) form of the verb. If you don’t know what the basic form of the verb is, go here: https://englishwithasmile.org/2013/06/04/how-to-recognize-the-basic-form-of-a-verb/ Use future when you talk about something that somebody is going to do in the future (not… Continue reading More Easy Grammar – Future
Photo by Russell James Smith You already know that you can ask questions in Present Simple with “do” and “does.” An article with exercises is here: https://englishwithasmile.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=586&action=edit Or freshen up your knowledge of Present Simple here: https://englishwithasmile.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=363&action=edit However, questions with “who” are different. If you ask a question with who, you don’t use “do” or… Continue reading Easy Grammar – The Question of Who
By Olga Koliichuk Learning the hard way, by Ludovic Bertron The ing- form is an impersonal verb form (You may sometimes find it’s called a verbal). An impersonal verb form means that it doesn’t refer to a person. When we add ING to an infinitive, we don’t add TO. Here is an example: I… Continue reading I Feel Like Learning Something New – Which Verbs Take Ing-form? Here Are Some Tricks.
Weathers By Thomas Hardy This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at ‘The Traveller’s Rest,’ And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And… Continue reading Poetry Time – Easy Line-by-Line Explanation of Thomas Hardy’s Weathers
The word “project” can be a noun and it can be a verb. But did you know that they are pronounced differently? Now you do. Project (noun) has the stress on the first syllable (“pro”). Project (verb) has the stress on the second syllable (“ject”). (If you don’t know what a noun or a verb… Continue reading Pronunciation Tricks: Stress Differences in Nouns and Verbs
Rasmos Olsen Two related problems that are often seen, and not only in texts written by learners of English. Here’s how to correct them. What do you think of this sentence: 1 He’s a doctor he loves his job. Does it look perfectly okay to you? If yes, you may be writing many more… Continue reading A Bad Case of the Runs – Run-on Sentences and Comma Splice
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