You’ll need to know about this (technical/grammatical) topic if you’re studying exam English. The only other reason to read about the subject would be if you’d like to understand why English behaves in the way that it behaves. Let’s start with the basics: One of the main parts in the sentence is the subject. The… Continue reading Fancy Learning a Bit about Grammar? – Parts of Speech: The Subject
By Jacqueline Schaalje It’s better to learn English using a text that is not too hard for you. Why is that? 1 Difficult texts make you tired. You probably know yourself that when you need to read a book or magazine or whatever in very difficult English, it doesn’t motivate you to keep reading. It’s… Continue reading Reading Difficult Texts – Some tips that Can Make Your Reading Easier
Tiny Dancer Em “Whose” can be a question word and a relative pronoun. (A relative pronoun connects two sentences.) It means: belonging to someone. If you ask: “Whose bag is this?”, you want to know whom this bag belongs to. Is it Sandra’s bag or Wilbert’s bag or somebody else’s? Another example: “Whose birthday is… Continue reading Quick Guide about Using Whose — includes Two Exercises
Check out the Video! After you’ve watched the video, do the quiz online, so you can check your answers immediately. Quiz Seem or Seem to Be Choose between seem or seem to be. 1 We didn’t rent the cottage. Although it __________ very cute, it was too small. 2 I met Clem once. He ___________… Continue reading Seem and Seem to Be – Video
By Natasha Nixon The internet has made it much easier to learn English by providing many tools for use by anyone, anywhere. That means that everybody in the world, not matter where you come from, can study English online. Study materials, even puzzles and games, and easy reading texts are readily available at no cost… Continue reading Websites that You Can Use to Learn English
®Mary Vertulfo Another subject on request: conversations. This is to give you a few ideas for first conversations. Remember, you don’t always have to stick out your hand and say your name and “Nice to meet you.” That is just one way to start a conversation. You can also just start talking and say your… Continue reading Starting a Conversation: Not So Hard
Hi Friend, Wanted to talk to you about English that is not English. Someone drew my attention to a website that is made up of lists of the 10 best of something. Here it is. This website isn’t very original in content, but what is worse is that the English is terrible! I think the… Continue reading Terrible English
By Yuri Worrell ®Mary Vertulfo Business English is something that is becoming more important every day. The world uses English more and more for trade and business. Even for doing business with regions as China and Europe, English has proven itself to be invaluable. So it is important that you improve your Business English, so… Continue reading You Could Make a Jump in Your Business English Using These Tips
If this is your first time practising passives, have a look at some earlier articles on the blog. A basic explanation of passives is here. Now we’ll have a look at how passives work in the perfect tenses. Present Perfect First Present Perfect. Have a look at the picture above. The active of this is: The… Continue reading Passives for Advanced Students: You May Never Have Asked Yourself This: How Do Passives Work with Perfect Tenses?
In other articles (also here), I explained the basics of passive sentences. A quick recap what this is about: There are active sentences. And there are passive sentences. It could be helpful if you looked up in your own native language what these two things mean. In most languages there is something similar as to what… Continue reading Passives, Again – Now with Different Tenses
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