Gateway to Grammar: Verb Families pt.6 - “ame”
It’s part six of Verb Families!
Gateway to Grammar : English adjective order
This is a tricky one. You can add loads of adjectives together in English to describe one thing, but there is a very strict order that the adjectives come in.
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”.
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.
Gateway to Grammar: Common English Interjections
Not all English is spoken how our dear Queen would recommend. In fact, a lot of every day English is contractions and slang. Most of all we use a lot of “Interjections”, noises or words used to show surprise, interest, or emotion about what your conversation partner is saying.
Gateway to Grammar: Understanding time in English
Do you want to explore Halloweens you have had before? Do you want to show, how great Halloween was 3 years ago? Let’s explore how to use time flags in English.
Gateway to Grammar: The Oxford Comma.
Using the Oxford Comma is a choice, but I would argue it is a choice that makes a lot of sense, and can avoid some very strange misunderstandings.
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!
Gateway to Grammar: They’re Their or There?
The English language is full of Homophones: Words which sound the same, but have a different spelling and meaning.
Gateway to Grammar: Modifiers - How to make a banana “slightly meaty”
Are you tired of saying “very” big, or “a little bit” small? Let’s get a little bit more creative with out modifiers. Modifiers are words that change the value or intensity of an adjective or adverb. Let’s expand our knowledge of modifiers.
Gateway to Grammar: He / She / It - Where does the ‘S’ fit?
There are many tenses (grammar for time) in English. I am going to teach you one phrase that will help you more than anything else when it comes to English grammar!
Gateway to Grammar: Articles in English
To stop the confusion at the start I don’t mean news or magazine articles, articles in English grammar are “a”, “an”, and “the”. There are some simple rules of what they are and when to use them.
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”.