Category Archives: Grammar

English Verb Tenses: Past Perfect

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Past Perfect with links to additional online exercises. Past Perfect Info Sheet read the information and do the exercises. Here is a worksheet which will also help … Continue reading →

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English Verb Tenses: Present Perfect Continuous

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Present Perfect Continuous with links to additional online exercises. Present Perfect Continuous info sheet Here is a worksheet which will help you focus on how to use the … Continue reading →

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English Verb Tenses: Past Continuous

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Past Continuous with links to additional online exercises. Past Continuous info sheet And here are some great ideas for how to practise using the past continuous: http://edition.tefl.net/ideas/grammar/past-continuous-activities/

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English Verb Tenses: Present Perfect

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Present Perfect with links to additional online exercises. Present Perfect info sheet Here are some worksheets which will really help you focus on how to use the Present … Continue reading →

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English Verb Tenses: Past Simple

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Past Simple with links to additional exercises. Past Simple info sheet Here are some speaking exercises to practise: Past Simple exercises. Here is a worksheet to practise building Past … Continue reading →

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English Verb Tenses: Present Continuous

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Present Continuous with links to additional exercises. Present Continuous info sheet And here’s a handy visual aid from http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/

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English Verb Tenses: Present Simple

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Present Simple with links to additional online exercises. Present Simple info sheet And here’s a handy visual aid from http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/

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Top 100 English Verbs

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Robert D. E. Senior

Below is a link to an excellent website with the top 100 most common verbs in English. You can also click on each verb to see the full conjugation pattern. Go learn them!! http://www.linguasorb.com/en/english/most-common-verbs  

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could / be able to: what’s the difference?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Robert D. E. Senior

This one comes up in class a lot. Here’s the best explanation I’ve found: could / be able to   

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so/such: what’s the difference?

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Robert D. E. Senior

http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/sosuch.html Here is a fine explanation of the differences in how we use so/such, along with exercises at the bottom.

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