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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Abolish Part of speech/type of word: Abolish is a verb Meaning: To end something, often an organisation, law or practice (a practice
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What are the colours of the rainbow in order? What are the colors of the rainbow in order? One of the best ways to remember things especially long things which you have to remember in the correct order is using something called a ‘mnemonic’. A mnemonic is often a group of letters which
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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
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Mrs Birling, A Character Analysis This is the second in our series of articles on the themes of the play, ‘An Inspector Calls’ and the two, the first article can be read by clicking on here. Mr Birling, a character analysis. The role/function of the Mr Birling character in the play. To understand Mrs Birling
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