Hi, I am wondering about the meaning of the words " people " and "the people".
People -- a group of people
the people -- all the people of race
I don't know whether it is right.
Thanks for answering.
Today's lesson is from Danica Steyn, teacher at EC Cape Town English school
Every month we ask our newsletter readers to send in their questions to Tim, our teacher at EC Brighton, our English language school in Brighton, about the English language. Here are your questions:
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Thanks to Kate Kapustina for this question:
Read through these ten example sentences. They all contain common mistakes made by English learners. Do you know what is wrong with each sentence?
There are four conditional tenses in English using if:
The zero conditional is used for scientific facts or statements that are always true.
"If you don't drink water, you die."
"You get wet if you stand in the rain."
When can be used instead of if and the meaning remains the same.
A mixed preposition quiz for you today. Simply complete the sentences with the missing preposition.
Which ones did you get wrong. Who got all ten correct?
Looking out of your window in the morning, you notice that all the flowers in your garden are missing.
What happened? You take a guess at it:
"A rabbit might have eaten all my flowers."
Let's take a look at that form.
might (modal) + have + eaten (past participle verb)
Here's another chance to make sure you know how to correctly form questions. All you have to do is choose the correct question for each given answer. We had a similar exercise last month called ' Which question is best?' - when lots of you said you got 10/10. Can you get them all right again. Let us know how you did.
Let's take an intermediate level look at relative clauses.
A relative clause tells us which thing or person the speaker means.
"The man who works in the bank is my brother" - 'who works in the bank' tells us which man.
hi all i am a online student of ec learning english plz tell me some good tips to understand part of sapeach verb noun adjective pronoun etc.... my first name is Syed last is yasir
