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Category: Grammar
This category is for posts that teach some aspect of English grammar. English grammar is critical for good writing. For speaking in simple sentences, you might survive without grammar, but to speak complex sentences in the correct tenses, moods, voices, and to have any hope of understanding English structures deeply, you really need to study grammar.
Relative Clauses Mini-Course
Introduction to Relative Clauses – Who/that/which Introduction to Relative Clauses – Whose Relative Clauses – Subject-Object Pronouns – Where/when/why Relative Clauses – Who or Whom Prepositions in Relative Clauses Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses Shortening Relative Clauses Quantifiers with Relative Clauses
Passive Voice Mini-Course
Introducing Passive Voice Passive Voice with Agent Passive Voice with New Information Passive Voice to Describe a Process Passive vs. Active Voice Passive with Various Tenses Passive with Two Object Verbs Passive Consolidation of Previous Lessons Passive with Object Complement Passive Choosing between Get and Be
English Challenge 01
Weekly English Challenge consisting of three parts:
Article – Colonizing Mars
Song – Imagine
TED Talk – Know Your Worth and Then Ask for It
Sentence Writing – Step 7 (Adverb Clauses)
Introduction Do you remember “Sentence Writing – Step 4 (Compound and Complex Sentences) when we learned about subordinating conjunctions? Guess what? Clauses that begin with subordinating conjunctions are adverb clauses. What Are Adverb Clauses? An adverb clause is a group of words that function as an adverb. The clause can
Sentence Writing – Step 6 (Adjective Clauses)
Learning how to use adjective clauses is an essential skill if you wish to form advanced English sentences and express complex thoughts. Let’s learn and practice.
Let’s Get Tense About Tenses
Learn about the regular and progressive verb tenses in both active and passive voices.
A Serendipitous Encounter
Traveling abroad after a hectic day of meetings, I needed a break. Seeing a crowded cafe, I entered. Having ordered a vanilla latte, I waited. Looking around, my eyes were drawn to a woman by the window looking outside. Sitting quietly and serenely, her presence was somehow comforting to me.
Pronouns
Pronouns are used to take the place or substitute for nouns to avoid repetition of the nouns for simplicity or clarity.
Grammar question? Ask the Teachers!
This post is a landing page provided as a place you can visit to answer grammar questions as they come into your mind. Don’t be shy. Try to stump the teachers. We dare you! Please ask your question as follows: Create a new post. Set the post category to “Ask
El Condor Pasa (If I Could) by Simon and Garfunkel
In this grammar lesson you will learn how to express what you prefer to do or who you prefer to be using the structure I would rather do… than… and I would rather be… than …. I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite song you’ve probably heard
Verbs
Verbs are used to show actions (walk, talk, see, go) or to describe a condition of existence or state of being (is happy, is tall). Verbs have many attributes such as person, number, voice, mood, and tense.