Would you like to better your UK English? Would you like your English to be refined, elegant and precise? Perhaps you’re working for a British company or in a Commonwealth or European country that uses British English. You need to…
Words, the building blocks of language, are organised into various categories known as parts of speech or word classes. These classifications serve to facilitate the understanding of sentence structure and linguistic principles. Parts of speech Parts of speech are categories…
There are three main types of conjunctions: coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions. Conjunctions are a part of speech or word class often described as ‘joining words’, because many conjunctions, such as ‘but’ and ‘and’, join words or clauses…
The word ‘that’ can cause much confusion to English language learners. In language, words are divided into word classes, or what are called ‘Parts of Speech’, and these word classes define the use of a word in a sentence. However,…
Here is an opportunity to practise your English advanced past and future tenses. While there are numerous tense quizzes on this website, this post allows you to see an overview of quizzes laid out in document form. Such a structure…
The following exercises are designed to give students practice at using articles (a, an, and the) in sentences. To understand when to use an article, one must first have an understanding of the parts of speech that make up the…
A1 level grammar is the first level; it is the level of a basic English user but not an absolute beginner. A student who has attained A1 level can already form sentences and use the language at its most elementary…
This post will explain in simple steps what an academic essay is and how to write one. This is a skill that is required not only for students of higher and further education, but also for students of English who…
This post examines the key aspects of verb usage. Verbs are a class of word that expresses an action. There are various aspects of verb usage that students of English need to learn, and these include sentence structure, subject-verb agreement,…