Say and tell – English learners often make mistakes with these verbs. There are situations where we can use either, but there are also situations where only one is correct. Another tricky thing is the grammar patterns tell and say follow. Tell is followed by and object but say isn’t, so we say something but we tell someone something. And finally there are some common expressions with tell where we don’t follow the normal rules.

Are you working hard or hardly working? What’s the difference? Learn how to use the words hard and hardly correctly and avoid a common mistake. Click here to see more grammar videos. Click here to see more vocabulary videos. Be careful with these words. If you use them wrongly, you might say the opposite of what you mean. The adjective ‘hard’ has several different meanings. One meaning is solid and firm. Rocks are hard. A

Suggest is a tricky verb in English. We use it in lots of different grammatical structures, but there are some where we don’t use it as well.  For example, we might suggest doing something but we don’t say suggest to do or suggest me. These phrases are wrong. Also when you want to make a suggestion, to sound natural, you might need to use a phrase without the verb suggest. Watch the video to see