If you want to use correct grammar when you speak English, you should practice grammar rules repeatedly. For example, after you learned the English present simple story, you should read and listen to a lot of sentences in this particular tense. Now you can use short stories to use that grammar automatically when you speak. … Read more
There is no one way to speak English; it is a language that can be spoken informally or formally. In informal English, speakers use less formal grammar and vocabulary. In formal English, speakers use more formal grammar and vocabulary. Informal English can be used in conversation, writing, and online communication. Conversations can be informal or … Read more
Students’ Writing and the Web: Motivator or OMG? Web browsers first appeared on computers in the early nineteen nineties. Since then, the Internet has greatly changed the way people communicate. But some teachers think the changes are not all for the better. Eleanor Johnson is an English professor at Columbia University in New York City. … Read more
Learning English Grammar Video Lesson 28-2: Embedded Questions Topic: Embedded questions. In Part 2, we look beyond the use of embedded questions as subjects and direct objects. We study embedded questions as indirect objects and complements. LEVEL: High intermediate to advanced. (Captions will help students at lower levels. Also you may want to explore how … Read more
Learn English Grammar Video Lesson 28-1: Embedded Questions (with captions) Topic: Introduction to embedded questions. In Part 1, I limit the discussion to embedded questions as subjects and direct objects. LEVEL: High intermediate to advanced. (Captions will help students at lower levels.) Also you may want to explore how you learn English grammar autimatically, watch … Read more
Learn English Grammar Video Lesson 27: Gerund and Infinitives (with captions) TOPIC: A brief review of what gerunds and infinitives are, followed by a study of gerunds and infinitives as direct objects (the object of a verb). Special attention is given to the verbs TRY, STOP, FORGET, and REMEMBER and how their meanings change depending … Read more
Learning English Grammar Video Lesson 26: Modal Verbs to Express Past Possibilities Lesson’s TOPIC: Modal verbs to express possibilities in the past (“must have gone”). Levels: Upper Intermediate to Advanced Also you may want to explore how you learn English grammar autimatically, watch Effortless English Rule 5: Point Of View (Effortless Grammar)Video for automatic grammar … Read more
Learn English Grammar Video Lesson 25-2: Articles Languages Countries Nationalities TOPIC: Articles with languages, countries, and nationalities. This is a lesson in two parts. Part 1 presented guidelines. Part 2 offers practice. Also you may want to explore how you learn English grammar autimatically, watch Effortless English Rule 5: Point Of View (Effortless Grammar)Video for … Read more
Learn English Grammar Video Lesson 25 Part 1: Articles Languages Countries Nationalities This English Grammar Video Lesson’s TOPIC: Articles with languages, countries, and nationalities. This is a lesson in two parts. Part 1 presents guidelines. Part 2 will offer practice. English Grammar Videos: Lesson 24-2 Articles Places and Geographical Names Lesson 24: Articles Places and … Read more
Learn English Grammar Video Lesson 24 (Part 2): Articles Places and Geographical Names [Sorry for the double posting. It was necessary to reload Part 2 of this lesson.] Lesson’s Topic: Using articles with places and geographical names. Part 2 summarizes the guidelines presented in Part 1 and offers more practice. If you want to see … Read more