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Joanne
May 212 min read
How does it work? The past continuous
The past continuous tells us what was happening, at the same time as another event, in the past. When you called me, I was watching...
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Joanne
Apr 222 min read
How does it work? The present continuous
The present continuous is used to talk about what is happening now, in this moment. The construction of the present continuous is as...
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Joanne
Apr 113 min read
How does it work? The past simple
This tense is perhaps the least 'simple' of all! We use it to talk about something that happened in the past where both the start and end...
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Joanne
Mar 252 min read
How does it work? The present simple.
This was probably the first tense, or time period, that you learnt when you started studying English grammar. For this reason it's...
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Joanne
Mar 182 min read
What's the difference between... will and would?
Will is used to talk about the present or the future. Would is the past tense form of will, so is used to talk about the past. It can...
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Joanne
Feb 192 min read
11 examples of adjective word order
Adjectives are the words used to describe a noun (a person or thing), for example: the red box, the quiet mouse, the big cat, the fast...
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Joanne
Feb 122 min read
5 subject and object questions
Are you doing something? Or is something being done to you? This is the starting point for deciding the subject or object of a sentence....
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Joanne
Feb 52 min read
How often do you do something?
Which word means you do something more; often or sometimes? Do you often go to the gym in the evening? Or do you sometimes read a book?...
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Joanne
Jan 292 min read
1 question...Do you have a little time for a quiz?
Few or a few? Little or a little? What's the difference you might ask? Let's start with few and little. Few is used with countable nouns,...
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Joanne
Jan 222 min read
7 sentence quiz using little or few
This is something that I hear people getting mixed up quite often, so I decided to look into the rules for when to use little and when to...
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Joanne
Jan 152 min read
5 ways to talk about location
As well as using in, on or at to talk about location (see below for my earlier posts) we can add 'of'' for some more advanced language!...
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Joanne
Jan 82 min read
9 ways to test your knowledge of much and many
How much ice-cream would you like? How many scoops of ice-cream would you like? We use much when we cannot count the amount of something....
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Joanne
Dec 18, 20232 min read
7 ways to test your knowledge of this, that, these and those
We use the words this, that, these and those to indicate, to point to, or to refer to things that are usually in our immediate...
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Joanne
Dec 4, 20231 min read
9 quiz questions: its or it's?
Surely they both mean the same thing don't they? Does the apostrophe really matter? Its Shows ownership of something and is used when...
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Joanne
Nov 27, 20231 min read
How or what?
Both are great words to use to show you are asking a question, but we need to be careful with the structure of that question. What does...
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Joanne
Nov 20, 20232 min read
5 examples of the past perfect in action
The past perfect is used to talk about events that took place in the past, but it is different to the past simple. The past simple is...
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Joanne
Nov 7, 20231 min read
5 different ways to use by or beside
Is Granny sitting by the fire or beside the fire? She is actually doing both since in many cases by and beside can be used...
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Joanne
Oct 3, 20231 min read
An hour or a hour?
We know the rule, if a word starts with a vowel: a. e, i, o or u we use an in front of it. If a word starts with a consonant, not a...
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Joanne
Sep 26, 20231 min read
I have done or I did?
This blog post looks at when we use the present perfect (I have done) or the past simple (I did). It is raining and I cannot find my...
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Joanne
Sep 11, 20231 min read
At, on or in? - Let's talk about places
In the previous blog post we looked at how at, in or on are used to talk about different time elements. This blog post looks at these...
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