Learn English Grammar and Vocabulary
Future continuous tense
May 9th
The future continuous tense (also called future progressive tense) is made with will / shall + be + -ing. Affirmative I will be working. They will be working. You will be working. Negative I will not be working. They will not be working. You will not be working. Question Will I be working? Will they [...]
Simple future tense
May 8th
The simple future tense is made with will / shall + infinitive without to. Affirmative I will come. She will come. Negative I will not come. She will not come. Question Will I come? Will she come? The simple future tense is used to talk about future events which we cannot control. It will be [...]
The past perfect tense
May 7th
The past perfect tense forms are made with had + past participle. Affirmative I had written a letter. She had written a letter. Negative I had not written a letter. She had not written a letter. Question Had I written a letter? Had she written a letter? Uses The past perfect tense is used to [...]
The past continuous tense
May 6th
The past continuous tense is made with was / were + -ing. Affirmative: I was working. They were working. Negative I was not working. They were not working. Question Was I working? Were they working? Uses The past continuous tense is used to talk about an action that was going on at some time in [...]
The simple past tense
May 5th
The simple past tense is used to talk about an action completed in the past. It is commonly used with adverbs or adverb phrases of past time. I saw him yesterday. His father died last year. The meeting began at 10 o’clock. I received his letter a week ago. She left school ten years ago. [...]
Adverb particles # 2
May 4th
We have seen that the same words can be used as both adverb particles and prepositions. Study the following sentences: I ran down the road. Please sit down. In the expression ‘down the road’, the word down is a preposition: it has an object (the road). In sit down, the word down has no object. [...]
Adverb particles and prepositions
May 3rd
Many English words can be used both as adverb particles and as prepositions. Examples are: on, off, in, up, down, to, from etc. There are, nevertheless, some differences between a particle and a preposition. An adverb particle is closely tied to its verb. A preposition, on the other hand, is tied to the noun or [...]
Subject + transitive verb + object
May 2nd
A transitive verb is one that has an object. The normal order of words in an English sentence is subject + verb + object. Subject Verb Object John likes milk. The principal punished the boy. The monk burned himself. The thief was given a good trashing. The government should ban all militant organizations. The US [...]
Verb patterns
May 1st
By patterns we mean sentence structures. In this lesson we will first consider some of the basic verb patterns. We have already seen that a sentence consists of two main parts – the subject and the predicate. The subject must contain a noun or pronoun and the predicate must contain a verb. Sometimes the subject [...]
Uses of the indefinite article
Apr 30th
We can use a/an to talk about one particular person or thing when the listener or reader does not know which one is meant. I met a little girl in the store. (The listener does not know which girl I am talking about.) She lives in a big city. (The listener does not which particular [...]