Prepositions

Prepositions are awful for a non-native speaker.
Altogether with phrasal verbs and idioms.
You would think that there are some rules which can teach you how to choose in a confident manner what to use in certain situations. But there aren't.


Prepositions are like wagoons of a train.
They don't function alone but they have a purpose: showing location, direction, movement, time, etc....

for more information check this site

And do bother taking the quizzes :)

Nouns. Plural. (1)

GOOSE?


GEESE!

My brother has some problems when it comes to plural forms. Today, while I was trying to explain him the rules I found this lovely site. It might be a bit easy for some, but it's of a great help for the basic stuff. So check the link below and as always, have fun!

exercices

List of Irregular Verbs (1)

No need of learning the Past tense of verbs in the old-fashioned way. Here's a link that may help you.


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But of course, you can learn it in the traditional way too.


Infinitive ------Simple Past

1. awake-----> awoke,awaked
2. be ----->was, were
3. beat-----> beat
4. become-----> became
5. begin-----> began
6. bend-----> bent
7. bet ----->bet,betted
8. bite ----->bit
9. bleed-----> bled
10. bless-----> blessed, blest
11. blow-----> blew
12. break-----> broke
13. bring-----> brought
14. build-----> built
15. burn-----> burnt, burned
16. burst-----> burst
17. buy-----> bought
18. can-----> could
19. catch-----> caught
20. choose-----> chose
21. come-----> came
22. cost-----> cost
23. cut ----->cut
24. do-----> did
25. draw-----> drew
26. dream-----> dreamt, dreamed
27. drink-----> drank
28. drive-----> drove
29. eat-----> ate
30. fall-----> fell
31. feed-----> fed
32. feel-----> felt
33. fight-----> fought
34. find-----> found
35. fly-----> flew
36. forbid-----> forbad, forbade
37. forget-----> forgot
38. freeze-----> froze
39. get-----> got
40. give-----> gave
41. go-----> went
42. grow-----> grew
43. hang-----> hung
44. have ----->had
45. hear-----> heard
46. hide-----> hid
47. hit-----> hit
48. hold-----> held
49. hurt-----> hurt
50. keep ----->Kept
    
    

50 verbs per activity is enough, isn't it? :)

English tenses- present-

1.We use the simple present tense when:

the action is general
the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future
the action is not only happening now
the statement is always true
e.g

It is John's job to drive a taxi. He does it every day. Past, present and future




2.We use the present continuous tense to talk about:

a)action happening now



The smiley is laughing now.

b)action in the future

They can play tennis with you tomorrow. They're not working.
When are you starting your new job?

3.This tense is called the present perfect tense. There is always a connection with the past and with the present. There are basically three uses for the present perfect tense:

experience
change
continuing situation

I have bought a car. (Last week I didn't have a car.)
The police have arrested the killer.(Yesterday the killer was free.Now he is in prison)
I have worked here since June.
He has been ill for 2 days.
How long have you known Tara?

4.How do we make the Present Perfect Continuous Tense?

The structure of the present perfect continuous tense is:

subject + auxiliary verb + auxiliary verb + main verb
have
has been base + ing

I'm tired [now] because I've been running.
I have been reading for 2 hours. [I am still reading now.]
He has been playing football for a long time.