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English Grammar: The Zero 0 Conditional

Posted on January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 by Melanie

Conditional sentences in English are used to talk about events and their results. The zero (0) conditional is the factual conditional. It is used to talk about habits, scientific facts, general truths, instructions and rules, if something else happens first. If this event happens or if this condition exists, this is what happens. These are things that […]

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Present Perfect: “How Long Have You (Done Something)?

Posted on January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 by Melanie

Many English learners struggle to understand the present perfect tense. It doesn’t exist in many other languages, so it is difficult to remember when to use it in English. It is easier to understand the present perfect tense if you can remember the different situations in which it can be used. You can use the present […]

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Present Perfect: “Have You Ever Been to (a Place)?”

Posted on January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 by Melanie

Have you ever been to Rome, Italy? You can use the present perfect to talk about a place, city, or country you have visited. The present perfect is used to talk about if, at any point in your life in the past, you have visited or traveled to a specific place. The present perfect is not used to talk about when you did something. […]

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English Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives for Purpose

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Melanie

Gerunds and infinitives are a part of English grammar that many English learners find challenging. In this post, I will help you understand when to use a gerund or infinitive to describe the purpose of someone or something. In English, both gerunds and infinitives can be used to talk about the reason why we use or do something. Let’s begin […]

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English Grammar: What are Conditional Sentences?

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Melanie

Grammar explains the way that words are organized into sentences. Not all English sentences follow grammar “rules.” However, there are sentence structures you can learn that make it easier for you to express your thoughts and feel more confident speaking English. Conditional sentences are one of these structures. A sentence structure is a specific order of words that native […]

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English Grammar: “Used to” Do Something

Posted on January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 by Melanie

When you want to talk about your habits or your daily routine right now, use the present simple verb tense: I walk to school. I take the bus to work. I smoke. That’s probably the first thing you learned in your English class! What if you want to talk about habits or your daily routine […]

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English Grammar: How to Use Present Simple to Talk about Future Events

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Melanie

          The present simple can be used to talk about talk about scheduled future events. These are events that happen according to a schedule or timetable. They are usually scheduled by someone else and they are usually public events. Tomorrow is Friday. I fly to Paris next week. The plane departs […]

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English Grammar: Adverbs of Frequency

Posted on January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 by Melanie

Adverbs are very important words in English! They are one of the 8 parts of English speech. However, there are many different types of adverbs. It’s often difficult to remember where to put adverbs in a sentence. In this grammar article, you’ll learn specifically about adverbs of frequency and how to use them in a sentence.   […]

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English Grammar: Can a gerund be used after the preposition “to”?

Posted on January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 by Melanie

It’s important to remember this basic grammar rule: HOWEVER, there is always an exception to the rule in English! Normally, ‘to’ goes with a verb (as part of the infinitive form), not a noun. If, however, the ‘to’ is a preposition that is part of a combination, then it is OK to use a gerund […]

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5 Funny Phrases to Use When You Want to Say that Someone is Dumb!

Posted on January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 by Melanie

In English, we have lots of creative and colourful ways of saying that someone is not very smart! It’s not very nice to call someone ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’, so in English we have a lot of funny expressions to use instead. 1. He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed! There are many other versions […]

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