Do you remember the difference between active and passive sentences?
Someone or something is performing an action.
"The cat chased the mouse."
Someone or something is having something done to them.
"The mouse was chased by the cat."
In order to make a passive sentence you need:
Here’s a refresher lesson on two modal verbs and ‘be able to’, which functions as one.
Lesson by Caroline Devane
I AM JUST READING THE BOOK WITH TENSES AND I AM SO CONFUSED.
I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE DIFERENCE BETWEN PRESENT PERFECT AND PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS.
Maybe i will explain with examples:
He breaks his leg every year./present time
His leg is broken/Can i say that?what tense is it?
His leg has been broken./present perfect
He broke leg yesterday./past tense
How or can i use this eample with present perfect continuous.
If someone can be that heplful and explain me all this tenses /forms on diferent exmples?
Thank you so much
Take a look at the irregular verb blow.
Blow is the present simple tense
Blew is the past simple tense
Blown is the past participle
Blowing is the progressive form.
Something that can really help you to see if you have understood a rule in English, or remembered some vocabulary, is to see if you can spot mistakes.
In each pair of sentences there is one correct sentence. Can you work out which is the correct version?
By Caroline Devane
I am always bit confused while talking to use do and does. Please anyone tell me when to use Do and Does in sentences.
Adverbs of frequency are used to say how often (or frequently) we do something. In English, the adverbs of frequency are:
Always
Usually
Frequently
Often
Sometimes
Occasionally
Rarely
Seldom
Hardly ever
Never
You probably remember the vocabulary, but can you remember where we must place them in the sentence?
Is it correct “Please be noted that prices of commodities have changed rapidly” or “Please note that prices of commodities have changed rapidly”? When they want to say “Please be informed that……”
Recently, I have realized that I often falter in appropriately using the 'prepositions'.
I read somewhere the following sentence: "They had copious paperwork proving that the realtor had cheated them.".
If I had to say this sentence, I would have said it as in the following manner: "They had copious for paperwork proving that the realtor had cheated them".
Can somebody tell me why should not we use 'for' in the above sentence. Thanks.
