We use the present perfect continuous in two ways: 1. to talk about an event which started in the past and is continuing now. We often use the words for and since with this tense. I have been learning English for six years. They have been living in Paris since […]

The Present Participle is a participle‏‎ that ends in -ing. We use it with the auxiliary verb‏ to be to form the continuous tenses‏‎: {be} + (verb –ing} I was walking home. She is running for the bus. Form The present participle is formed by adding -ing to the bare […]

We use the Present Continuous (also called Present Progressive) in three ways in English‏‎: 1. to talk about a situation that is happening right now as we speak. What are you doing? I am reading 50 Shades of Gray! Why is he in bed? He is not feeling well today. […]

Prepositions are a closed word class‏‎. This means there are only a few of them and no new ones are ever added to the group. This article introduces the main groups of prepositions in English. A preposition joins nouns, pronouns‏‎ and phrases‏‎ with other words in a sentence‏‎. Generally speaking, […]

Prepositions of Time – we use these prepositions‏‎ to talk about time, either with a specific start and finish or general periods of time. We use them to explain when something happened. There is no real logic to which prepositions we use when talking about time so they just have […]