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Possessive Determiners
Here’s a chart and an explanation of possessive determiners.
(Modified from https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/determiners-possessive.html)
Posted in Grammar, The Basics
Tagged Possessive Adjectives, Possessive Determiners, Possessives
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be used to / get used to
Click on the link below for a simple explanation of this grammar point:
A typical mistake is to mix up ‘ be used to’ with ‘used to’. Click on the link below to see the latter if you are unsure.
How to use ‘however’
Everything you need to know is here:
http://blog.esllibrary.com/2014/08/27/however-7-sentence-positions-2-uses/
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A1 – what you should know
See the pdf to find out what an A1 level learner should know before moving up to A2.
The Phonemic Alphabet
The phonemic alphabet is the symbols used to represent the sounds of the English language. You see them in a dictionary, usually written in italics and between two slashes. Here is a very nice pictorial depiction from English File that will hopefully help you remember how to pronounce each symbol.
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