Words used when talking talking about your family. Your family tree Your closest relatives are your parents: your motherand father; and your siblings (brothers or sisters). If your mother or father is not an only child, you also haveaunts and / or uncles. An aunt is the sister of your mother or father, while
Read more →Sometimes english speakers use “wish” to show that they want a situation to be different. The verb after “wish” is one tense back, so that if you are wishing for a different present situation, the tense that follows “wish” is past simple or past continuous. If you
Read more →This year there have been anti-government protests in Tunisia and Egypt and Libya, where people have taken to the streets (= to demonstrate along with others) to voice their anger. If you turn on the news you can see people holding up placards (message written on a rectangular piece of
Read more →Have a look at these and compare these two English sentences: Active = “The dentist gave me a prescription” Passive = “I was given a prescription” In the first sentence, the focus is on ‘the dentist’. In the second sentence, the focus is on ‘I’. Below we
Read more →Sometimes you need to ask a person to do something for you in English without sounding rude? Here are some of the ways that you can give orders and instructions. 1. Use the imperative form We use the imperative form to give orders, warnings and advice: Be quiet!
Read more →We often start a conversation with strangers and friends by talking about the weather. As weather is a neutral topic of conversation, it’s usually safe to use it to strike up a conversation – at the bus stop, in a shop, or with a neighbour over the
Read more →As and like in English Like and as are often confused. They can both be used to talk about the way things are similar. Like is followed by a noun or pronoun. For example, “I’m like my brother”, or “Like my brother, I have brown eyes.” As is followed
Read more →Business English Vocabulary bonus additional pay given to employee as incentive or reward curriculum vitaeUK short account of one’s education, career etc; CVUK; resumeUS; resumeUS dismiss to remove or discharge from employment; to sack [colloq.]; to fireUS employer person or firm who employs people - employee n. person
Read more →When the subject and object of a sentence refer to the same person or thing, we use a reflexive pronoun as the object rather than a personal pronoun. Compare: – She forced her to eat it. (she and her refer to different people) and – She forced
Read more →As…as We use as…as with an adjective or adverb in between to say that something or someone is like something or someone else, or that one situation is like another: – Was the film as funny as his last one? – Andrew came round to my flat
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