Subject and Object Pronouns
The subject pronoun goes before the verb. The object pronoun goes after the verb or after a preposition. Examples: I […]
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English Phrasal Verb – Come true
Phrasal Verb come true Definition to become reality Examples My dream has finally come true: I’m going to live in America! “I remembered something you once told me and I’ll be damned if it did not come true” Gram Parsons, Return of a Grievous Angel Verb and preposition separated? Can’t be separated Normal or Informal Normal American / British / International […]
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Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris – Return of the Grievous Angel Level: B1 (Intermediate) – American English Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris sing about travelling around America on 20,000 roads all of which lead back home. In this exercise there are some common, and some less well-known, verbs of movement. See also: Prepositions after verbs of movement
Read moreEnglish Phrasal Verb – Carry on
Phrasal Verb carry on Definition to continue Examples Even though they were shouting at her, she carried on talking. I told him to carry on because I think he’s doing a good job. Verb and preposition separated? Can’t be separated Normal or Informal Normal American / British / International International Regular / Irregular carry is a regular verb
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The subject pronoun goes before the verb. The object pronoun goes after the verb or after a preposition. Examples: I love you. She plays tennis with him. This land was made for you and me. (Woody Guthrie, This land is your land) Subject pronoun Verb Object Pronoun 1st person singular 2nd person singular 3rd person sing. (m) 3rd person sing. […]
Read moreTime Expressions
Look at the following time expressions to talk about time periods in the present, past and future: Present Past Future today yesterday tomorrow this morning yesterday morning tomorrow morning this afternoon yesterday afternoon tomorrow afternoon this evening yesterday evening tomorrow evening tonight last night tomorrow night this week last week next week this month last month next month this year […]
Read moreRelative clauses
Relative clauses allow us to give further information about something in the same sentence. For example instead of saying She is the girl. She goes to my school. which doesn’t sound very natural, we can say She is the girl who goes to the same school as me. Defining relative clauses When the information contained in the sentence is essential […]
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We use relative pronouns to join two pieces of information together. It replaces the noun. So instead of repeating the noun This is John. He lives here. we can use a relative pronoun to link the two sentences together This is John who lives here. We use who for people: She is the girl who lives next door to my […]
Read moreStative verbs list
Here is a comprehensive list of Stative verbs: to adore to fit to please to agree to hate to possess to appear (seem) to have (possession) to promise to appreciate to hear to realise to be to imagine to recognize to believe to include to remember to belong to to involve to resemble to concern to know to satisfy to […]
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Stative verbs are verbs with no continuous form. They generally refer to the following groups of verbs: 1. Possession I have brown hair (not I’m having a brown hair). I own a car (not I’m owning a car). This computer belongs to John (not this computer is belonging to John). He possesses at least four houses (not he is possessing […]
Read morePresent Perfect 6 – Stative verbs
The sixth time we use the present perfect simple is when we talk about how long something has been happening and we are using stative verbs. Stative verbs have no continuous form and so we can’t say “I have been liking Bob Dylan for 20 years” even though it is an action which started in the past and is continuing. […]
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