Problems, problems… In my last blog, I explained why the English Present Perfect tense can be tricky to get right for non-native speakers. Many languages use a similar form to talk about the recent past, reserving the “regular” past tense for more “historic” events....
On Time Perhaps unsurprisingly, English grammar is quite punctual. Tenses are used fairly consistently to separate past from present and although we never got round to inventing future tenses, we manage with will. Unlike some other languages, the rules are pretty...
Comparisons can be difficult for us to learn. Last week, I outlined the rules we traditionally teach for making comparisons with adjectives in English and suggested that they may be too complicated to learn naturally for many adult learners (including me). If you...
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