Grammar
- When To Use Past Perfect Tense
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Past Perfect (When to Use) In this page we examine the Past Perfect Tense in a detail: what it actually means and how it is used. Some illustrative extracts from English literature are given below. Past Perfect expresses...
- Using Past Indefinite Through Dialogues
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Using Past Indefinite This page shows different ways of using the Past Indefinite (or Simple Past) through dialogues from English literature. I The Past Indefinite is used to express a single action completed...
- Zero Conditional - There's More To It Than Water Boiling At 100°c
This is intended to be one of several posts where I take a look at conditionals from a rather different angle. Zero Conditional rarely gets more than a couple of lines in course books; I'm going to look at in rather more detail, and hopefully...
- Random Quiz - Conditionals
Multifunctional quiz based on a 'bank' of more than 100 conditional sentences. View by conditional type or combination. Or just go for a random selection. You can choose which types of conditionals to try: All One...
- Exploring Grammar - The Subjunctive
You will occasionally hear or read about the Subjunctive, although in British English (BrE) we don't use it very often. And because we don't use it much, I sometimes wonder if we actually know what its forms are. I'm being disingenuous...
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- When To Use Past Perfect Tense
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Past Perfect (When to Use) In this page we examine the Past Perfect Tense in a detail: what it actually means and how it is used. Some illustrative extracts from English literature are given below. Past Perfect expresses...
- Using Past Indefinite Through Dialogues
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Using Past Indefinite This page shows different ways of using the Past Indefinite (or Simple Past) through dialogues from English literature. I The Past Indefinite is used to express a single action completed...
- Zero Conditional - There's More To It Than Water Boiling At 100°c
This is intended to be one of several posts where I take a look at conditionals from a rather different angle. Zero Conditional rarely gets more than a couple of lines in course books; I'm going to look at in rather more detail, and hopefully...
- Random Quiz - Conditionals
Multifunctional quiz based on a 'bank' of more than 100 conditional sentences. View by conditional type or combination. Or just go for a random selection. You can choose which types of conditionals to try: All One...
- Exploring Grammar - The Subjunctive
You will occasionally hear or read about the Subjunctive, although in British English (BrE) we don't use it very often. And because we don't use it much, I sometimes wonder if we actually know what its forms are. I'm being disingenuous...