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Gateway to Grammar: Prepositions of Place and Movement 4 - Opposite, Beside, Circling, and Following
Welcome to part 4 of the Gateway to Grammar series on prepositions for place (staying still - where is it?) and movement (moving around - where is it going?). Also, this is the fourth week of finding very specific cat pictures and I am suffering.
Gateway to Grammar: Prepositions of Place and Movement 2 - Above, Underneath, Over and Under.
Welcome to the second part of Prepositions of Place and Movement, and all the cat pictures that come with it. It’s my mission to include cat pictures whenever possible. We will be adding 2 more prepositions of place and 2 more prepositions of movement this week.
Gateway to Grammar: Question Tags - What Are They and How Do They Work?
I don’t know why I chose cheese guys, I just thought it was a silly enough example for you to remember it. We are looking at question tags today, the little confusing question bits at the end of a native English person’s sentence.
Gateway to Grammar: Using the Passive Voice to Avoid Responsibility
We live in a time when people publicly apologise for doing something wrong, and that’s a good thing… usually. It’s a good thing when people take responsibility (say they did it), and when they really mean it when they say sorry. That’s why we are going to look at the passive voice today, and how people use it to fake an apology that they don’t really mean.