EFL/ESL Grammar: English tenses The use of past perfect tense in English The past perfect is used to talk about an action or an event that happened in the past before another action. Usually, we have two actions. The first one is put in the past perfect tense and the second is put in the […]
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English lessons: rules, use, and practice The use of Gerund and Infinitive in English A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding “-ing.” Examples: I like watching TV She enjoyed dancing in the party. I’m interested in attending the conference. Infinitives are the “to” form of the verb. Examples: She decided to
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English lessons: rules, use, and practice Reported speech in English: reporting commands Reporting commands Commands are statements of requests, suggestions, warnings, advices, offers, regrets, and orders. Reporting commands is very easy compared to questions and statements. You just drop “to” before the main verb if it is positive and “not to” if
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English lessons: rules, use, and practice Reported speech in English: reporting questions Reporting questions In reported speech, we not only report statements but also questions. We have two kinds of questions: open and closed questions. Open question: What are you doing? Closed question: Are you in school right now? The open question is a question
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