The Imperative (sometimes called the Imperative Mood) is a form of verb‏‎ in English. It’s used mainly to tell people what to do so we can have different types of imperative sentences: Giving Orders: Stop! Shut the door! Giving instructions: Add a pinch of salt and boil for fifteen minutes. […]

A Gerund is a special form of a verb. It’s also known as a Verbal Noun and more informally, the -ing form. We use it when we want to use an action verb as the subject or object of a sentence. So essentially, it’s a verb which acts like a […]

This is a very general guide to Gender in English. Unlike many other languages it is fairly straightforward in English which makes it relatively easy for language learners and explaining it in your TEFL classroom. To begin with and in practical terms, English grammatical gender applies only to nouns and […]

Life would sound a bit repetitive without pronouns: Brian got up. Brian washed Brian. Later Brian went out. Brian got in Brian’s car and drove off. Change a person’s name into a personal pronoun and it all gets a little easier on the ear: Brian got up. He washed himself. […]

The future tense is used to talk about events in the future. There are a number of different verb forms‏‎ we can use to talk about the future. Present Continuous This is very common. We use the present continuous to talk about plans for the future, often with an adverb […]