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Use the past simple with a past time reference

May 19, 2013

Students often misuse the simple past tense. Use simple past only when you say when something happened in the past. You can, for example, use a time expression (e.g. last week, last year), a date (on the 18th of last month), a prepositional phrase (e.g. in high school) or a clause (e.g. when I was [...]

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Object of a preposition

May 18, 2013

Prepositions are followed by a noun or pronoun which acts as their object. When the object of a preposition is a pronoun, the pronoun should be in the object form. Examples of object pronouns are: me, him, them, us, her, you etc. Can you send this letter to her tomorrow? (NOT Can you send this [...]

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Like and without

May 15, 2013

These words are often confused. Like is either a verb or preposition. In either case, it is followed by a noun or noun equivalent which acts as its object. I like my country. She likes playing with her dog. She looks like her mother. He ran like wind. They fought like lions. She sings like [...]

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Four ways to join clauses

May 14, 2013

We have already learned that clauses can be joined in several ways. In this lesson, we will closely examine some of these techniques. Study the examples given below. She returned home safely. Everyone was happy. We can join these two clauses in four different ways. Using a semicolon A semicolon doesn’t separate two clauses like [...]

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