Judging from the emails that you’re sending me (thanks!), a large number of the readers and users of my blog and website are students. If you don’t have a smartphone, not to worry. There are plenty of internet sites that are pretty similar to these apps. Let’s see what’s new in the app market. Well,… Continue reading Best English Learning Apps
The Right Position for Pronouns A common mistake for learners of English is to put pronouns in the wrong place in the sentence. Pronouns are words like you, I, he, she, we, they, me, your, his, him, her, us, our, etc. Let’s do a quick test to see whether you have this problem. Is this… Continue reading Using Pronouns in the Right Way: Give Me My Pen – Give that Pen to Me
Over and across are both prepositions that are used when someone needs to get to the other side of something, for instance the other side of a bridge or a road. Here are the rules: 1 Getting Over Something Higher: Over When getting to the position on the other side means getting over something that… Continue reading Over and Across: When to Use Them
Lots of words that are connected with the sea take “on” as a preposition. (Prepositions are little words such as in, at, for, of, from, above, etc.) Let’s have a look at some: Sea Words with On You say on the beach. On the sea On the seafront (the seafront is the area of land… Continue reading On the Sea & On the River – Prepositions with Sea & Water
The following practice is for advanced students. Do this only when you know how to use different tenses. You can use tenses with modals too. Modals are verbs like must, need, have to and ought to. Underneath are some examples for you to study: Each example is in the affirmative (= a statement), a question… Continue reading Can Humans Fly? – Mixed Tenses with Modals
This article is not for beginning learners of English! However is used a lot in formal language, especially in writing. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Mahatma Gandhi Pain is… Continue reading How to Use However
Either and neither mean nothing more than “also not.” However you can’t say also not in English. It just doesn’t exist in English. Instead, we use either and neither. You use either with “not,” but you need to use neither with a positive verb. So like this: Either + not + verb Neither +… Continue reading I Don’t Have a Sister, and My Sister Doesn’t, Either – How to Use Either and Neither (and Nor)
This is a technical issue. If you’re a beginning speaker of English, you don’t have to bother with it. Martinak15 “That” and “which” are both relative pronouns, which means they are used to speak about someone or something earlier in the sentence. “That” and “which” are used in sentences that are a combination of one… Continue reading The Difference between That and Which
How to make the Past Progressive To make the past progressive you use “was” or “were” + a verb with –ing. Examples: was drinking were playing When to use: 1 Past progressive is used to tell at what time something happened. Examples: At 9 o’clock Mary was having breakfast. Albrecht was playing badminton between… Continue reading We were drinking coffee when the phone rang: Past Progressive – How and When to Use it
In this article we’ll talk about who, which and whose. These are called relative pronouns. (Just so you know.) The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. – Mark Twain When to Use Who You use “who” to refer (talk about) a person. Example: The man who is driving that old… Continue reading Relative pronouns: Who, Which, and Whose
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