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 […]
What are relative clauses?
What are relative clauses? What is a clause? A clause is a part of a sentence. For example if we say ‘John likes orange but Peter likes banana.’ ‘John likes orange’ is a clause, the first part of the sentence, and ‘Peter likes banana’ is a separate clause, but they are joined together to […]
What are adjectives?
What are adjectives? Adjectives are words that describe something. Everything has a name and in English names of things are called ‘nouns’. For example: “The house is beautiful”. The name of the thing is ‘house’ and so ‘house’ is a noun’. The house is described as ‘beautiful’ and so ‘beautiful’ is an adjective. Other common […]
What is the past participle?
To know what a past partciple is we need to know what verbs are. Past participles are a type of verb. What is Verb ? A verb is usually an action. So for example: ‘go’, ‘buy’, ‘eat’, ‘write’ all of these are verbs. Verbs can also be something which is not an action but a […]
What are 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 […]
Pre-intermediate A2 reading: An email from Carlos.
Pre-intermediate A2 reading: An email from Carlos. Read the following email from Carlos and then answer the questions below. ‘Hi Diego, How are you? It has been a long time since we have spoken. I miss you. I hope you are well my friend! How is everything in Spain? I have been in […]
What are phrasal verbs?
What are phrasal verbs? Phrasal verbs are not words but phrases i.e. they can be two or three words. However a phrasal verb like a normal verb has a specific meaning so is almost like a word. Phrasal verbs are phrases which refer to different actions. Verb + preposition(s) Phrasal verbs consist of […]
What is a noun?
A noun is a name. It can be the name of a person like ‘Peter’. It can be the name of a country like ‘Britain’ or ‘Spain’. It can be the name of a food like ‘spaghetti’ or pasta’. It can be the name of a sport. Anything that is a name of something is […]
What is ‘part of speech’?
What is ‘part of speech’? ‘Part of speech’ is a formal term used to state what particular type of word a specific word is. There are 9 different ‘parts of speech’ or categories which any word could belong to. The 9 categories are: Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Preposition Pronoun Determiner Conjunction Interjection. Let us look […]