by sheila_admin | Jun 17, 2012 | Parts Of Speech, Sentence Structure
The past is past and (sometimes unfortunately) it cannot be changed. All we can do is imagine how it might be different now if things had gone differently. To do this, to describe unreal situations in the past, we use the Third Conditional. If I had known the party...
by sheila_admin | Jun 16, 2012 | Parts Of Speech
We use Perfect Tenses to talk about a finished action, often in relation to another action. This action can occur at any time in the past, present or future. 3 Perfect Tenses There are three perfect tenses in English: Past Perfect This is used to talk about a...
by sheila_admin | Jun 16, 2012 | Parts Of Speech
We use the Continuous Verb Forms to talk about things which are happening over a period of time. With continuous forms we highlight the duration of an event. Note that sometimes we use the word Progressive instead of Continuous. Continuous forms usually talk about...
by sheila_admin | Jun 16, 2012 | Parts Of Speech
Irregular Verbs are those verbs which do not follow the normal rules of conjugation in English. In English, most verbs follow this pattern and are regular: infinitive past form past participle walk walked walked As you can see, they add an -ed to the end of...
by sheila_admin | Jun 16, 2012 | Parts Of Speech
Auxiliary Verbs (from the Latin auxilio = to help; they are also known as helping verbs) are verbs used to change the tense, form mood and voice of other verbs. In other words, we add an auxiliary to a verb to turn it into a question, to put it into the past, to...
