by Phil Williams | May 4, 2017 | Grammar
I have had a few requests recently to provide more examples of sentences as they are used across all the English tenses. This is useful to show how and why we might use the different tenses to describe the same situation. One example was given in my timeline (I go...
by Phil Williams | May 19, 2015 | Exercises, Grammar
Affirmative and negative statements in the different tenses have quite distinct forms, with the negatives using the auxiliary verb did. To test understanding and demonstrate the difference, this exercise scrambles sentences that you can practice putting into negative...
by Phil Williams | May 5, 2015 | Exercises, Grammar, Reading Exercise
In the following reading text, all of the verbs should be in one of the past simple forms. Choose which past simple form to use, and complete the reading text by using the information in brackets. Sometimes the verb in brackets is also joined by a negative or subject....
by Phil Williams | Mar 1, 2013 | Definitions, Exercises, Grammar
Let, get, have and make are what we call causative verbs. This is because they lead to results. You can let, have, make or get someone to do something. They vary in firmness – let is the least firm, make is the most firm. Below is a simple demonstration of the...