50 questions with who. The word ‘who’ can either be a question word or it can be a relative pronoun. A relative pronoun is used when we want to describe someone or identify someone. Here are 50 questions with who. Who are you? Who is your teacher? Who is your best friend? Who are your […]
What is the difference between live and lives?
What is the difference between live and lives? The word live can be a verb or an adjective. Live as a verb 1. As a verb it means that someone is not dead but has life e.g. ‘I do not want to die but to live happily’. 2. It can also mean to be […]
What are conjunctions?
CONJUNCTION A conjunction is a word that joins two parts of a sentence like ‘and’, ‘or’ , ‘because’. We could say “Peter likes fruit. He also likes vegetables”, however we can make this one sentence with the conjunction ‘and’. “Peter likes fruit and he also likes vegetables.” 3 types of conjunctions There are 3 types of […]
What is an antoynm?
What is an antonym? Antonyms are words which mean the opposite to something. For example: Good – Bad Hot – Cold Tall – short These are all ‘antonyms’. ‘Anti’ is Greek for opposite and ‘onym’ means name, like in the word ‘pseduonym’ (a fake name). Some antonyms are well known such as ‘good-bad’, ‘hot-cold’, ‘tall-short’ […]
The future tenses in English, with examples.
The future tenses in English. There are 4 main future tenses in the English language. They are: future simple: I will do future continuous: I will be doing. future perfect: I will have done. future perfect continuous: I will have been doing. In addition to these there is also: Present continuous used for the […]
Advanced reading quizzes.
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 […]