Essential English grammar for learners who wish to achieve B2 level.
Some English verbs are frequently confused because they can seem similar although they are used in different contexts. Two such verbs are to come and to go. While some think they are interchangeable, their use depends on perspective and direction.…
When and while are two words that are often confused by intermediate English language learners. As is often the case with confusing words, these particular two words can sometimes be interchanged but frequently have distinct meanings of their own. When…
Idiomatic expressions, or idioms, are phrases whose meanings cannot be deduced from the literal definitions of the words within them. They are an essential but confusing part of the English language, but also of many other languages. In the UK,…
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…
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,…
A relative clause is a type of ‘dependent clause’ that usually modifies the subject or object of a main clause. This can be a noun or pronoun, but also an adjective or a noun phrase that is functioning as the…