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Simpler Than Thou: English Tense Basics: Present Simple
Or Simple Present. Believe me, I’ve never been a great fan of grammar. When I was younger, I never did a single grammar exercise in my life. But I’ve always read a lot. And so should you! When you read...
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What’s a Noun and How Do I Find Them?
Do you know what a noun is? It’s a word that indicates a person, a thing, an animal, a feeling, or an idea. For instance: woman, lamp, dog, joy, honesty. To make sure you’ve found a noun, put an...
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Don’t Listen to Microsoft Word’s Grammar Check, or What You’ve Written Will...
When you use Microsoft Word, do you also get distracted by the red and green wavy lines under words and phrases? Probably everybody does. The red lines are supposed to warn you that you misspelt a...
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Never Too Late to Learn – Adults Are Better at Learning a Language than Children
In dating there are rules, in traffic there are rules, in math there are rules, now it turns out there are rules in learning a languages. And when you’re adult, you’re so much better at learning those...
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Irregular Verbs – Some More Practice
Irregular verbs aren’t nice. They’re used way too much and they always surprise you, because they’re always different. Just when you thought that you discovered the rule for one verb, like sing, sang,...
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Using Pronouns in the Right Way: Give Me My Pen – Give that Pen to Me
Chris A common mistake for learners of English is to put pronouns in the wrong place in the sentence. Pronouns are words like you, I, he, she, we, they, me, your, his, him, her, us, our, etc. Let’s do...
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Best English Learning Apps
Judging from the emails that you’re sending me (thanks!), a large number of the readers and users of my blog and website are students. If you don’t have a smartphone, not to worry. There are plenty of...
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Some Tricks to See the Difference Between Verbs and Nouns
Often, especially when your English gets better, it’ll help you understand a text when you know which words are nouns and which are verbs. And it can also make you a better writer. Invent or invention?...
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