What are helping 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 […]
What are superlative adjectives?
What are superlative adjectives? What are adjectives? First, let’s start with understanding what ‘adjectives’ are. 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 […]
What are possessive pronouns?
The possessive pronouns are: Mine, Ours, Yours, His, Hers, Its, Theirs. 1. What is a pronoun? 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 […]
The 0 and 1st conditionals in English.
The 0 and 1st conditionals in English. Here is our video on 0 and 1st conditionals in English. 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 […]
IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS: ABLE.
This is the third in our series of articles on 1,000 useful words for IELTS, TOEFL and Academic vocabulary. To read the first article on the word, ‘ABANDON’, please click on here. To read the second article on the word, ABIDE, please click on here. Part of speech/ type of word: Abide is an […]
Video: Difference between past simple and past continuous.
Here is the text/script of the English Made Simple on the difference between the past simple and past continuous. The video is on www.youtube.com/englishmadesimple ” Hi Welcome to English Made Simple. Today we will talk about the difference between the past simple and past continuous and some examples. The past simple is an action […]
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