Ready for a Slightly More Difficult Tenses Quiz? By Jacqueline Schaalje Not so Easy Not so Easy Not so Easy Not so Easy Not so Easy Not so Easy Not so Easy Not so Just like last time, but now slightly more tricky. Can you use the correct tense in these sentences? Try the test… Continue reading Basic Tenses Review 2
Easy easy Easy easy easy Easy easy Easy easy easy Easy easy Easy easy By Jacqueline Schaalje I’ve been sending you lots of articles about tenses and grammar and more tenses and more grammar, but how well do you know them? Just for a change, try the quiz first. Click here to do this online.… Continue reading Basic Tenses Review – Easy Grammar
You can use the expression “used to” for things that were true in the past, but they are not now. People may have changed their habits, or they have died, etc. Often, used to speaks about the distant past (not about yesterday). For instance, when you were a kid you had a stamp collection, but… Continue reading Upgrade Your English with Used To – I Used to Live in London
Often, especially when your English gets better, it’ll help you understand a text when you know which words are nouns and which are verbs. And it can also make you a better writer. Invent or invention? What I’ve seen with my students is they can guess what the meaning is of a sentence when they… Continue reading Some Tricks to See the Difference Between Verbs and Nouns
In this article we’ll practise making the future progressive. It’s not very complicated. You use: will be + verb ending in –ing. When to Use? We use the future progressive when something is sure to happen. Here is an example: A) I can say: I will go to the movies tonight. B) I can also… Continue reading I Will Be Studying for my Exam This Weekend – Future Progressive (Continuous)
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
Do you know how to use verbs such as absorb and insert? Or adjectives such as flexible, fragile and high end? Take a look at my two new vocabulary quizzes on Englishwithasmile.net. The first quiz practices technical verbs and the second quiz is about technical adjectives. Both quizzes are for advanced learners of English (but… Continue reading For Techies: Two New Quizzes on Technical Vocabulary
by Jacqueline Schaalje Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Victor1558 Suppose I have a sentence like this: I eat dinner at home. Now I want to add usually. So I’ll say: I usually eat dinner at home. As you see, I put “usually” after the… Continue reading I Often Go to the Beach – Where to Put Words like Always, Often, Usually, Never and Sometimes in your Sentence
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
Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy Have a look at the following student examples. What is wrong with them; why are these sentences not good English?: It not normally used like this. Why “throw” not correct? I’ll give you a hint: Something is missing. What is missing? The… Continue reading Can I Disturb You with a Verb? – Every sentence in English must have a verb.
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