Verb patterns refer to the way we use certain verbs with other verbs in a sentence in English. It’s important to understand verb patterns in order to sound natural in English, but the wrong verb pattern can also affect the meaning of a sentence.

Some verbs are followed by the ‘to’ infinitive, su...

Asking a question in English might seem difficult because there are lots of rules to understand, but it's not as hard as you think.

Firstly, we need to understand the difference between open and closed questions. This means questions where the answer could be anything or questions where the answ...

Adjectives are one of the four main parts of speech in English. The other three are verbs, nouns, and adverbs.

Adjectives are normally used to describe a noun, which will give us more information to help us understand that noun better. For example, an adjective could tell us the dimensions or qu...

Adverbs are one of the four main parts of speech in English. The other three are verbs, nouns and adjectives.

Adverbs are normally used to describe a verb, which will give us more information to help us understand that verb better. For example, an adverb could tell us how an action is done, e.g....

Conditionals are a type of sentence in English that refer to a real or unreal situation in the past, present or future. We sometimes call them 'if' clauses, because the word 'if' is normally the key part of this type of sentence.

There are four types of conditional sentence, the zero, first, sec...

In English, we have the past, present and future tenses. Perfect tenses are sometimes referred to the retrospective tense. This means we use perfect tenses to look back from a point in time.

To make a perfect tense, we use a form of the auxiliary verb 'have' and the past participle. For example,...

We use reported speech to tell someone what another person said. This is useful if we're reporting something which is now in the past or that may not be true anymore.

For example, if someone says to you "I want to learn English", you can report that to another person as: SHE SAID SHE WANTED to l...

Relative clauses are a very useful way of adding extra information to a sentence in English. It can tell us more about the sentence. It is also a very helpful way to help us connect two sentences together, which will improve our writing in English.

We add extra information to a sentence by using...

Modal verbs are used in English to show how someone feels about something. Modal verbs can be used to show ability, obligation, permission, probability, and willingness.

For example, you can express ability by saying "I CAN help you". This means I am able to help you. I have the ability to help ...

We use the passive voice in English when we want to focus on the object of the action and not the subject. The passive is used for different reasons, such as not knowing who did an action, or if we want to sound more formal.

To write a passive sentence, we need to change the structure of the sen...