Gateway to Grammar: Which part of speech?
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Gateway to Grammar: Which part of speech?

Knowing the words for the different parts of speech can really help you communicate with your teacher. You can say, “I have problems choosing the right article”, or “I want to learn more advanced adverbs”.

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Gateway to Grammar: How to use speech marks
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Gateway to Grammar: How to use speech marks

Crikey Gavin, calm down. It’s not that complicated. There are two kinds of speech marks: “quotation marks”, and ‘apostrophes’. They are normally used to represent different things.

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Gateway to Grammar: It’s or Its?
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Gateway to Grammar: It’s or Its?

Are you having trouble remembering whether you should be using “It’s” or “Its”? Join the club. Native English speakers, and in this case at least one native English teacher, struggle with it too. It breaks the rules and confuses us all. Buckle up as we go through the gateway to Grammar Town!

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Gateway to Grammar 02: The present Perfect Tense
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Gateway to Grammar 02: The present Perfect Tense

This week we are looking at the present perfect tense. The present perfect is used to describe things that started in the past and are still happening now. For things that are finished we use the past simple. Times that started in the past and are still happening now: Today, This week, This year, “yet” etc. We also use the present perfect when something has just finished, but the effects are still active such as “I have been running all day, that’s why I am so tired”.

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