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Non Progressive Verbs

Non progressive verbs are related to mental processes, emotional states, possession, sense perception, and some others.

Non-Gradable Adjectives

Non-gradable adjectives cannot vary in intensity or grade.

Noun Gender

Nouns refer to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality.Nouns have three genders: masculine, feminine and neutral.

Noun with Both Genders

We can find nouns which are the same for masculine and feminine genders.

Object Pronouns

Object pronouns are pronouns which are used as an object that follows a verb or a preposition or as...

Omission of Articles

Omission of articles are allowed in some cases.

Omission of Relative Pronouns

Relative pronouns can be omitted when they are not the subject of the clause.

One and Ones

One and ones are replacing words that are used to avoid repetition.

Order of Adjectives

Adjectives are determiners that modify or describe a person or a thing.When we have more than one adjective, we...

Ordinal Numbers

Ordinal numbers express numerical sequences, positioning elements in a list.1st - First; 2nd - Second; 3rd - Third ...

Ought to: Modal Auxiliary Verb

Ought to is a type of auxiliary modal verb used to express obligation and duty through advice or recommendations.

Passive Structure

The passive form expresses the idea of something or someone receiving an action or experiencing a particular event or...

Passive Voice of Verbs

The passive form expresses the idea of something or someone receiving an action or experiencing a particular event or...

Passive Voice Verbs with To-Infinitive + Object

After passive verbs, we could find the to-infinitive + object structure.

Past Continuous Affirmative

The past continuous (or progressive) is the tense used to express situations that occurred in the past and were...

Past Continuous Interrogative

The past continuous (or progressive) is the tense used to express situations that take place in the past and...

Past Continuous Negative

The past continuous (or progressive) is the tense used to express situations that occurred in the past and were...

Past Habits with Would + Zero Infinitive

The main function of would + zero infinitive is to talk about our repeated actions in the past...

Past Participle

The past participle is a verb form which is used in the formation of many tenses. It is made...

Past Perfect

The past perfect is a tense used to talk about actions or events that took place earlier than other...

Past Perfect

We use the past perfect tense to talk about actions or events that took place earlier than other past...

Past Perfect Continuous

Past perfect continuous is a tense used to talk about actions or situations that were in progress before some...

Past Simple Affirmative

The past simple is the tense used to express situations, events and actions that happened in the past.When expressed...

Past Simple Interrogative

The past simple is the tense used to express situations, events and actions that happened in the past.When expressed...

Past Simple Negative

The past simple is the tense used to express situations, events and actions that happened in the past.When expressed...

Past Simple of Irregular Verbs

Many common verbs have irregular past forms.

Past simple of To be

The verb to be is essential in grammar. It is an auxiliary verb and it is one of the...

Past Subjunctives

Past subjunctives express imaginary conditions.

Phrasal Verbs

A phrasal verb is a two-part verb formed by a verb and a particle. This particle usually gives verbs...

Phrasal Verbs

A phrasal verb is a two-part verb formed by a verb and a particle. The particle usually gives a...

Phrasal Verbs

A phrasal verb is a two-part verb formed by a verb and a particle. This particle usually gives verbs...

Plural Noun formation

The plural form of a noun is used to indicate that there is more than one person, animal, place...

Polite Requests and Offers with Would

For polite requests we can use would, would like or would you mind doing…?

Possessive Adjectives

Possessive adjectives are used to show that something belongs to someone.They are: my, your, his, her, its, our, your...

Possessive Case

The possessive case is used to talk about things that belong to a person or animal. We can even...

Possessive Case with Double Genitive

The possessive form is used to talk about things that belong to a person, object or animal.The double genitive...

Possessive Pronouns

Possessive pronouns are determiners used to show that one thing belongs to someone.They are: mine, yours, his, hers, its,...

Predictions with Will and To Be going to

We use the future simple (with the auxiliary will) to express opinions, spontaneous decisions and hopes.We use to...

Prepositional Phrases

Prepositional phrases are the result of the combination of a preposition and other elements of the sentence (nouns, pronouns,...

Prepositional Verbs

A prepositional verb is every verb followed by a preposition.

Prepositions after verbs, adjectives and before nouns

Prepositions are small words that connect elements in a sentence. They can be placed after verbs and adjectives, but...

Prepositions of Method and Manner

Prepositions of method and manner are used to explain in what way something is done.

Prepositions of Movement

We use prepositions of movement to express movement or directions.

Prepositions of Place

We use prepositions of place to locate an event in a space frame.

Prepositions of Place – extension

We use the prepositions of place to locate an event in space.

Prepositions of Possession

Prepositions of possession are used to express that something belongs to a person, animal or thing.

Prepositions of Time

Invariant nouns are nouns which have the same singular and plural form.

Present and Past Emphatic Tenses

Emphatic tenses are used to express emotive or contrastive emphasis.We use the present and past emphatic tenses to express...