Check your grammar and fix some common mistakes.
For and Since – we use both these prepositions to talk about time in English, so how are they different? Learn how to use these English prepositions correctly in this video. Thank you for calling Pattersons. Your call is very important to us. Please hold. Sorry to keep you waiting. This is Rachel speaking. How […]
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Wait, hope, expect and look forward to – they’re very common and useful verbs that you’ll need to talk about the future in English. The thing is, we don’t always use a future tense. In fact technically speaking, English doesn’t have a future tense. You’ll find that very often we use a particular verb to
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In this video we look at two meanings of like and fix a common mistake. We’ll compare the verb like with like as a preposition and you’ll learn how to use two useful English questions: Do you like…? and What’s it like? Click here to learn how to use the phrase looks like Click here
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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
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‘Try’ is a special verb in English because we can follow it with either a gerund (ing form) or infinitive. However the meaning changes. Watch the video and learn how ‘try to do’ is different from ‘try doing’. Watch videos about some other verbs that can be followed by gerunds and infinitives. Learn how their
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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
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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
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Is it lay or lie? Even native English speakers sometimes have to think about this one, and sometimes they mix these verbs up. The two verbs mean different things, one takes and object and one doesn’t, and just to make things more tricky because the past tense of lie is lay. Wow! That’s confusing, but
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Some English adjectives have two forms, so they can end with ed and ing. The endings determine their meaning. For example, we use interested to say how we feel and interesting to describe the person or thing that causes the feeling. Watch this video to learn about ing and ed adjectives and avoid a very common
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We use both for and during to talk about time in English. So when do we say for and when do we say during? Learn the different meanings and uses of these prepositions in this video. Click here to learn how we use the prepositions for and to to talk about purpose Click here to learn
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