Grammar
- Step By Step Grammar 4: Pronouns
A pronoun can replace a noun and refers to a specific person or thing. There are different types of pronouns but for now it’s enough for you to know that words such as I, you, he, she, it, we, they and variations of these e.g. mine, yours or myself,...
- Avoid Common Mistakes In English
Some mistakes made by foreigners while speaking English are more common than other ones. I hope this might help some of you and reading it will take only a few seconds... Let’s get started.To tell and to sayWe will learn the usage of the verbs 'to...
- Silly Unstranded Preposition At The Bbc
Spotted on the BBC News website The three [South Korean mobile networks] are selling the phone now to get round government restrictions on to whom they can sell new handsets. Presumably the writer was trying to avoid ending the sentence with a preposition....
- Phrasal Verbs That Are Always Separated
There are a few phrasal verbs that take an object where that object must go between the verb and the particle, and not after the particle. The idea of this post is to try and list all of these, or at least as many as I know about. I've taken...
- Random Quiz - Prepositions After Verbs
This quiz is based on a list of over 250 verbs followed by prepositions and includes dependent prepositions and phrasal verbs. Instructions and basic principles Use the Select selector to choose between: All verbs - verb + preposition -...
Grammar
Step by step grammar 6: Prepositions
A preposition works as a link between other words. It usually indicates some sort of relationship to the object it refers to – whether to do with time or space. Words such as in, on, to, with, under, above etc. are all prepositions.
The flower is on the window sill.
I’ll visit you before Sunday.
It usually occurs inside a prepositional phrase i.e. preposition followed by a noun phrase such as into the city, after the movie. In some circumstances prepositions appear in the construction called preposition stranding where they are not followed by a noun e.g. where are you going to? Come in. There are also certain verbs that are followed by a preposition and we refer to these as phrasal verbs – fixed constructions of single verbs and prepositions - e.g. make up, fall out, switch on.
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- Step By Step Grammar 4: Pronouns
A pronoun can replace a noun and refers to a specific person or thing. There are different types of pronouns but for now it’s enough for you to know that words such as I, you, he, she, it, we, they and variations of these e.g. mine, yours or myself,...
- Avoid Common Mistakes In English
Some mistakes made by foreigners while speaking English are more common than other ones. I hope this might help some of you and reading it will take only a few seconds... Let’s get started.To tell and to sayWe will learn the usage of the verbs 'to...
- Silly Unstranded Preposition At The Bbc
Spotted on the BBC News website The three [South Korean mobile networks] are selling the phone now to get round government restrictions on to whom they can sell new handsets. Presumably the writer was trying to avoid ending the sentence with a preposition....
- Phrasal Verbs That Are Always Separated
There are a few phrasal verbs that take an object where that object must go between the verb and the particle, and not after the particle. The idea of this post is to try and list all of these, or at least as many as I know about. I've taken...
- Random Quiz - Prepositions After Verbs
This quiz is based on a list of over 250 verbs followed by prepositions and includes dependent prepositions and phrasal verbs. Instructions and basic principles Use the Select selector to choose between: All verbs - verb + preposition -...