This is simply a list of common phrasal verbs‏‎ which your students should know. There is no easy way to learn phrasal verbs as their meaning cannot be guessed by their make-up. Likewise many phrasal verbs have several completely unrelated meanings. This means that phrasal verbs must simply be learned […]

A Collective Noun is a noun used to describe a group of objects (things, people, etc). For example, when we talk about collections of people we can use words like: a group of men a gang of teenagers a mob of rioters a squad of soldiers Each of the highlighted […]

Auxiliary Verbs (from the Latin auxilio = to help; they are also known as helping verbs) are verbs‏‎ used to change the tense, form‏‎ mood and voice of other verbs. In other words, we add an auxiliary to a verb to turn it into a question, to put it into […]

Aspect describes how a speaker feels about the action they are describing. In English there are generally accepted to be 3 aspects and they change how the verb‏‎ is formed: simple (aka indefinite) continuous (aka progressive) perfect A Simple Example To take an example. Suppose someone says: I drive to […]

There are three types of Articles in English‏‎. Put simply, we use articles to let people know what kind of noun we’re talking about. Take the word, fly, for example. If I just use the word on its own I’m speaking very generally. These flies are annoying me. If I […]