«Determiners»

There are two main types of determiners: specific and general. Let’s look at specific determiners first. The definite article – ‘the’ – is a specific determiner. If we say ‘the table’, it is assumed that both the speaker and...

«Prepositions for Days and Times»

When we talk about a specific time of the clock or the calendar – for example 5pm or Easter – we use the preposition ‘at’, e.g. ‘I have an appointment at 5pm,’; ‘the meeting finished at 10am’, and so on. To answer the question we asked on Facebook – should we say...

«Prepositions of Time»

There are two common ways of telling the time: (a) using ‘past’ and ‘to’ or (b) giving hours, then minutes. (a) If we use ‘past’ and ‘to’, we normally use increments of five minutes. Let’s use the example of two...

«The Conditional Tenses»

We use the ‘Zero Conditional’ to talk about things that are generally true. Its construction is «If + Present + Present or Imperative». For example «If it rains, I take an umbrella.» Or, «If you come home late, be quiet.» Notice that the first example...

«Homophones in english»

Stage 3 Stage 4 Homophones: Words That Are Pronounced The Same But Spelt Differently   En el artículo de hoy os vamos a hablar de los homófonos en inglés, esas palabras que se pronuncian igual pero su grafía y significado son diferentes. Sabemos que los homófonos...

‘Bored’ or ‘Boring’?

If we say that someone is ‘bored’, it means that their mood is one of boredom – they are not stimulated by what is happening (‘I’m so bored today, I need to do something different’). If we say someone is ‘boring’, however, the sentence takes on a much more personal,...

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