Category: Grammar
Sorry for not writing anything recently.
I am writing a new article about using the passive, which should be available in the next few days.
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Whether to use the verb raise or rise can be confusing.
to raise /reɪz/ means to put or lift something into a higher position.
to rise /raɪz/means to move into a higher position.
You can think if it in this way: if a living thing causes (ma… more »
Today, I asked someone how long some work was going to take to do (how much time). His reply was, "How long's a piece of string?"
A piece of string can be long or short, so this figure of speech means that he didn't know how long it was going to take.… more »
In this post I will show you how the present perfect and past simple are used for different parts of the past.
Remember, the present perfect is used to talk about the past up to now and uses the auxiliary verb, 'have'.
Time is often divided into named blocks (years - seasons - months - weeks - days - hours - minutes - seconds). If we are talking about a block of time and we are currently in that block of time, we can use the present perfect. If that block of time has past, we use present simple. more »
“Have you ever?”
This question is asking for a yes or no answer about experiences in the past from birth to now, but we don't need to know the exact time when or how many times it happened. more »
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