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 […]
IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS: ABOLISH
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 […]
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 […]
Mrs Birling, a character analysis.
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 […]
IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS: ABNORMAL
This is another 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: Abnormal is an adjective. Meaning: Very different […]
IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS: ABILITY
This is another 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: Ability is a noun. Meaning: To have […]
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 […]
Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles is located in the state of California on the west coast of the USA besides the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean. Despite it being a city of 3 million, which is not that big when you consider that many cities that there are over at least 20 Chinese cities which have a […]