Auxiliary Verbs (from the Latin auxilio = to help; they are also known as helping verbs) are verbs used to change the tense, form mood and voice of other verbs. In other words, we add an auxiliary to a verb to turn it into a question, to put it into […]
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Aspect describes how a speaker feels about the action they are describing. In English there are generally accepted to be 3 aspects and they change how the verb is formed: simple (aka indefinite) continuous (aka progressive) perfect A Simple Example To take an example. Suppose someone says: I drive to […]
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There are three types of Articles in English. Put simply, we use articles to let people know what kind of noun we’re talking about. Take the word, fly, for example. If I just use the word on its own I’m speaking very generally. These flies are annoying me. If I […]
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Apposition is when you have 2 nouns (or noun phrases) next to each other and they both refer to the same thing. Each of them provides a bit of information about each other. For example, take these basic sentences: Clark Kent leaped into a phone booth. Clark Kent is an […]
Continue ReadingAll About Shall (vs Will)
When we talk about the future, most often we’ll use words like will or be going to: They will arrive tomorrow afternoon. I’m going to see the match. However, there is an alternative: shall. These days, people often talk about shall as though it’s on its way out and that […]
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