Mass Nouns
Mass nouns are nouns that refer to a substance that can be divided or measured but not counted, e.g. sugar, water. They do … Continued
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How to use ‘Used to’
The verb used to is a ‘marginal’ modal verb. Unlike the other modal verbs, it is only found in the past tense. Therefore,
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Use of Shall and Will
The normal way to express simple future time in English is using the modal verb will followed by the base form of a main
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Each/Every/Either/Neither
The words each, every, either, and neither are distributives. Distributives are determiners that are used to talk about how something is shared out or divided.
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Active and passive forms in English
Active We use an active sentence when the subject of the verb is doing the action. The active is used
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Using the passive in English
We use the passive to direct our listener’s attention to the important part of our message. The passive can be
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Forming the passive in English
Passive verbs are made from a form of be + the past participle of a main verb. In the passive, the form of the
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Irregular verbs in English
Irregular verbs are verbs that do not form the past simple tense and the past participle by adding -ed to the base form. There
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Regular verb forms in English
English verbs have up to five different forms. These are: Regular verbs are all formed in the same way, by
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