What is ‘part of speech’? ‘Part of speech’ is a formal term used to state what particular type of word a specific word is. There are 9 different ‘parts of speech’ or categories which any word could belong to. The 9 categories are: Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Preposition Pronoun Determiner Conjunction Interjection. Let us look […]
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What are helping verbs? What is a verb? A verb is an action. Verbs include words such as “go”, “do”, “eat”, “drink”. They tell us what actions we do. Now let us look at these two sentences to understand what a helping verb is and what a main verb is. ‘Do you…?’ “Do
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What are superlative adjectives? What are adjectives? First, let’s start with understanding what ‘adjectives’ are. Adjectives are words that describe something. Everything has a name and in English names of things are called ‘nouns’. For example: “The house is beautiful”. The name of the thing is ‘house’ and so ‘house’ is a noun’. The house
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This is another in our series of articles on 1,000 useful words for IELTS, TOEFL and Academic vocabulary. For a list of all of our articles in this series, click here. Abolish Part of speech/type of word: Abolish is a verb Meaning: To end something, often an organisation, law or practice (a practice
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The possessive pronouns are: Mine, Ours, Yours, His, Hers, Its, Theirs. 1. What is a pronoun? A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun. A noun is a name. For example, if we say “John cooked lunch.” John is a noun because it is the name of the person in the sentence. If
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The 0 and 1st conditionals in English  Here is our video on 0 and 1st conditionals in English. What are conditionals? Conditionals are sentences that usually begin with ‘IF’. We use them to talk about different possibilities ‘IF’ something happens or happened. There are 4 main types of conditionals in English, as well as the
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Mrs Birling, A Character Analysis This is the second in our series of articles on the themes of the play, ‘An Inspector Calls’ and the two, the first article can be read by clicking on here. Â Mr Birling, a character analysis. The role/function of the Mr Birling character in the play. To understand Mrs Birling
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IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS: ABNORMAL This is another in our series of articles on 1,000 useful words for IELTS, TOEFL and Academic vocabulary. To read the first article on the word, ‘ABANDON’, please click on here. To read the second article on the word, ABIDE, please click on here. Part of speech/ type
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IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS This is another in our series of articles on 1,000 useful words for IELTS, TOEFL and Academic vocabulary. To read the first article on the word, ‘ABANDON’, please click on here. To read the second article on the word, ABIDE, please click on here. Part of speech/ type of
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IELTS & TOEFL, 1,000 USEFUL ACADEMIC ENGLISH WORDS: ABLE This is the third in our series of articles on 1,000 useful words for IELTS, TOEFL and Academic vocabulary. To read the first article on the word, ‘ABANDON’, please click on here. To read the second article on the word, ABIDE, please click on here.
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