Posted on February 2, 2012, in Easy, Grammar, Grammar FAQ, Uncategorized, with 0 Comments
Simple past : Negative form To form the negative of a sentence in the Simple Past you need to use the past form of the auxiliary verb ‘do’ – that is ‘Forming the Negative of the simple past To form.
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Posted on January 23, 2012, in Easy, Grammar, Grammar FAQ, with 3 Comments
Video Lesson 1 of 3 Forming the Simple Past, sometimes called the Preterite tense, is really pretty easy… at least for regular verbs. You take the subject, follow it with the verb ending in –ed and there you have it..
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Posted on December 17, 2008, in About English, Advanced, Bits and Pieces, Books and Reading, Intermediate, Podcast, with 3 Comments
[display_podcast] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And I send this to all of our readers, no matter whether you celebrate Christmas in your culture or not – may you all have a wonderful and prosperous 2009. Christmas is.
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Posted on October 17, 2008, in About English, Intermediate, with 2 Comments
By Anthony Hughes MLitt., Cert TESOL CEO English4Today From the English4Today series on online learning More and more websites and Internet services are offering to find you the ideal English language teacher. Many of them are very good and offer.
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Posted on March 5, 2008, in About Words, Grammar, Grammar FAQ, Intermediate, Podcast, Vocabulary, with 8 Comments
Question from Cathy in Canada: Can we say I arrive to work at 9 o’clock or do we need to use “at”? Also can we say I was late to class or do we need to use “in”? Thank you..
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Posted on February 13, 2008, in About English, About Words, Grammar FAQ, Intermediate, Podcast, Vocabulary, with 15 Comments
Question from Khadija in Morocco: What is the difference between ‘hear’ and ‘listen’? Answer: Hi, Khadija. Thank’s for your question, I’m sure that the difference between ‘listen‘ and ‘hear‘ is not clear for a lot of English language learners. Let’s.
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Posted on February 1, 2008, in About Words, Advanced, Grammar, Grammar FAQ, Podcast, Uncategorized, Vocabulary, with 2 Comments
Question from English4Today member Gireesh in the United Arab Emirates: Which one of the following sentences is correct having the meaning like “cannot accept…” ? 1) We regret to accept your letter….. 2) We regret not to accept your letter…….
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Posted on February 1, 2008, in About English, About Words, Grammar FAQ, Intermediate, Podcast, Vocabulary, with 16 Comments
Question from English4Today member Khadija in Morocco When can we use “how about” and when can we use “what about”? Hi Khadija. This is another one of those situations, and we’ve discussed quite a few of them here, where you.
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Posted on January 27, 2008, in Grammar, Grammar FAQ, Intermediate, Podcast, with 0 Comments
Question from Jadie in the USA How would the word hunter be spelled in the following sentence? The sentence might go something like, “The hunter’s steel trap secured my foot to the forest floor.” Would the correct spelling be hunters,.
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Posted on January 24, 2008, in About English, About Words, Bits and Pieces, English for Fun, Grammar FAQ, Intermediate, Podcast, Vocabulary, with 8 Comments
Question from English4Today member Vin in the USA: What is it called when letters are substituted for words, i.e., LOL stands for Laugh out loud. Hi Vin, they are everywhere and they are called ‘acronyms‘! An acronym was originally a.
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