Here is a list of all of our advanced reading quizzes. Click on each link to read the quiz, answer the questions and to leave a comment. Italian, from where to where?
IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS: ABSENT
This is another in our series of articles on 1,000 useful words for IELTS, TOEFL and Academic vocabulary. For a list of all of our articles in this series, click here. ABSENT Type of word/ ‘Part of speech’: Absent is an adjective Meaning: To be away or to not be somewhere. Examples: John was not in […]
IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS LIST.
Here is a list of of all of our articles (with the videos in them) in our series on IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 useful academic English words. ABANDON ABIDE ABLE ABILITY ABNORMAL ABOLISH ABSENT Here are some examples of some of these words used in real life.
Eric Birling, a character analysis.
Eric Birling a character analysis. The role/function of Sheila Birling’s character in the play. In the previous articles we looked at the Birling parents and their daughter Sheila. We focused on what the writer J.B. Priestley was trying to do by creating these various characters. In terms of Eric: 1. Eric (and his sister Sheila) […]
What are irregular verbs with examples.
What are verbs? Verbs are words that tell us what people do. They are usually actions. So for example: Peter teaches in a school, his sister Ana cooks food in a restaurant.The words ‘teaches’ and ‘cooks’ are verbs, because they tells us what these two people are doing. REGULAR VERBS Regular verbs are verbs which end in […]
List of where adverbs
What are adverbs? Adverbs are words that tell us how, when, where something happens. A lot of adverbs end in ‘..-ly’ and tell us how an action has been done. He drives slowly.She speaks quickly. There are many adverbs just like ‘slowly’ and ‘quickly’ that describe a ‘verb’ and tell us how it is done. […]
What are stative verbs?
What are stative verbs? A verb is a word used to describe an action. Well, most of the time. Some verbs are not actions of the body but actions of the mind such as ‘think’ and ‘calculate’. With these verbs we can use them in the present continuous, so we can say: ‘I am thinking […]
What are the first and second conditionals?
To read the article on the 0 and 1st conditionals in English please click on this link. Conditionals What are conditionals? Conditionals are sentences that usually begin with ‘IF’. We use them to talk about different possibilities ‘IF’ something happens or happened. There are 4 main types of conditionals in English, as well as […]
What are subject and object pronouns?
What are pronouns? A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun. A noun is a name. For example if we say “John cooked lunch.” John is a noun because it is the name of the person in the sentence. If we said “John cooked lunch and then John cleaned the kitchen” it […]
What are modal verbs?
What is a verb? A verb is an action. Verbs include words such as “go”, “do”, “eat”, “drink”. They tell us what actions we do. Now let us look at these two sentences to understand what a helping verb is and what a main verb is. ‘Do you…?’ “Do you…?”. Do you, what? The sentence […]