How to Use Pronouns such as Me, Him, Her, and Them Here is a new video where you can practise your pronouns. The quiz is inside the video. First I give you a few examples, and then you’re on your own. And now the bad part Should you want to practise more stuff with pronouns,… Continue reading Replacing Pronouns
Now that you’re still fresh into the new year, let’s practise your spelling with some irregular plurals. This lesson is about words that end in Y. These get -ies in the plural (for more than one). Exception to the Rule: There’s only one exception to the rule and that is that July in the plural… Continue reading Plurals with -ies (for words ending in Y)
Practice Your Grammar through Building Sentences You probably know how to make sentences with will when they’re not questions. Sharon will play hockey tomorrow morning. This is future simple. I’m only using the simple future in this article, so as not to complicate things. We’ll do other future tenses some other time. Now we want to… Continue reading Asking Questions with Will
This subject was brought to my attention by Mohan Angbo from Nepal who’s been asking me some great questions. He asked why we need that in some sentences but not in others. I suspect that many of you will find this an interesting subject. Well, at least some. Let’s start by looking at two example sentences.… Continue reading That: How to Connect Sentences with That, and When Can You Leave it Out
Easy Grammar! I’m writing this newsletter now. This is what I’m doing now. What are you doing? You’re reading this. You probably know the grammar of these sentences: I’m writing You’re writing She’s writing He’s writing It’s writing Etc. If this looks mysterious to you, have a look here. This is present progressive tense. Some… Continue reading Present Progressive (Continuous) for the Future
There are several ways to use the word since and this can be confusing. So it’s time we spoke about the different meanings of since. 1) The First meaning of Since: Starting from a Time You will probably know the meaning of since that means from a certain time in the past. Here are some… Continue reading The Different Meanings of Since
Well, I don’t know. I’m not a fortune teller. But I hope you will be very happy, as much as possible, and that you’ll have fantastic English. This article is about the various ways that you can say something in the future in English. As you know, English has different tenses for past, present and… Continue reading What Will Be in Your Future?
You can’t always be sure in life. In that case you can use seem. So when you’re not stating a fact, you can use seem. Compare the following: Elephants are grey. This is 100% true, isn’t it? Well, some people would say they are a little brown. In that case, such a person would say:… Continue reading How to Use Seem when You’re not 100% Sure
“Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.” Princess Diana For things that you can count, you can say: a number of. If you can’t count it, you can speak about an amount of something. Examples with Number of and Amount of Here are some examples: A number of trees were lining… Continue reading The Difference Between Number of and Amount of
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