by Phil Williams | Apr 13, 2021 | Definitions, Exercises, General English, Grammar, Words
Here’s an issue that confuses native English speakers: when and where to use an apostrophe with it. This has been covered a lot online, because these two words are very commonly confused, but I still get asked about it so hope my own explanation might reach a few more...
by Phil Williams | Mar 9, 2021 | General English
Today, we’re taking another look at the tenses with a short mixed past tenses exercise. This one’s a little different to the usual gap-fills or scrambles that I’ve posted in the past, as it uses a sentence pairing style. It’s taken from The...
by Phil Williams | Dec 8, 2020 | General English
It’s that time of year again, with Christmas quickly coming and a great excuse to add some seasonal language exercises. Today, I’m sharing a new short story gap-fill exercise to test understanding of phrasal verbs, to go with the list I’m developing...
by Phil Williams | Oct 7, 2020 | Books, General English
I’m proud to announce the reopening of the English Lessons Brighton store, making my grammar guides and more available directly from this website. Please give it a look! In the early days of ELB I experimented with selling books directly on the website but took the...
by Phil Williams | Sep 8, 2020 | Definitions, General English, Words
I’ve had a few blog comments lately addressing how English is used or taught differently, and thought it would be a useful exercise to produce an article covering how we discuss varieties of a language. Some of the most active articles I have are ones where people...
by Phil Williams | Aug 4, 2020 | General English, Grammar, Writing skills
After some interesting questions regarding points of view and pronouns, on the pronouns cases article, I felt it would be useful to share my more extensive look at perspective in English, as taken from the Advanced Writing Skills book. So here’s a slightly...