Of course you can make passive sentences in any tense, and as a question or a negative sentence. Negatives are easy. All you need to do is follow the rule for passives (use be + V3) and add “not.” For questions, put your first verb before the subject. Here are all the possibilities in the… Continue reading Passives Part 2 – Questions and Negatives
Examples of passives sentences are the following: Dinner is served. The plan was abandoned. The decision has been made. Twenty jobs will be cut. What are passive sentences used for, do you think? Well, usually, if someone uses a passive sentence it’s because it doesn’t matter who did something. The passive voice makes what… Continue reading The Passive Tense – A Basic Explanation
By Natasha Nixon ®Ros Webb Have you ever wondered how you can build on your English vocabulary? There are some excellent ways for you to try. These can be used every day. The more you do these the better your vocabulary will become. Vocabulary Tips You could start an English learning blog. You could utilize… Continue reading 99% of English Learners Need This: Building Your Vocabulary
When you buy additional exercises at the English with a Smile website you will find exercises that you can only find on English with a Smile. You can’t find them anywhere else. Yet you need these exercises to speak and write English well. Let me help your English make better as fast as we can!… Continue reading Accelerate Your Learning
Hello culture lovers, this is for you. Because we’ll learn a subtle, small, but important issue. Should you say: I love to go to the theatre? Or: I love to go to a theatre? By the way, Americans spell that theater (with er). The answer is: go to the theatre. Because we’re assuming that the… Continue reading I Like to Go to the Theatre or A Theatre? – Learn Correct Use of The and A in These Fixed Expressions
Easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy Kate Ter Haar I finally managed to fix a mistake that one of my students is making all the time. Yay! Hope it will stick. Her mistake is she gets the word order wrong in sentences with very much.… Continue reading You Don’t Need to Be Shakespeare to Know Where to Put Very Much in Your Sentence
At the exact moment when I was planning an idioms article for my Newsletter, a reader emailed me to ask for: …. idioms. He (or she, I’m not quite sure) had a specific list. His list was pretty good, so we’re using his list. No need to add anything! Part and parcel Means that it… Continue reading Take some Time to Learn a Few Great Idioms
easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy Joe Lewis As you probably know, most plural nouns in English are with an S at the end. The plural of hand is hands: one hand, two hands. The plural of pen is pens: one pen, two pens. One… Continue reading Easy Lesson on Singular and Plural Forms in English – Look at the beautiful carp in the pond!
In the past weeks, I’ve been reading and marking lots of students’ essays. These always interest me very much, and not only because of the new or informative content. They also tell me about mistakes that are made a lot. So I thought I’d talk about a typical mistake that you might find useful in… Continue reading Past or Present? These Easy Rules Will Make Your Writing So Much Better
Celestine Chua Here is a mistake that is made a lot, so please have a good look at the difference between kind of and kinds of. When you speak about kind of with more than one thing, you need to use kinds of with an s. If the thing that is described is more than… Continue reading Kind of or Kinds of? – Don’t Forget the S in Kinds!
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