ESL students often fail to connect their sentences and ideas with appropriate connecting words. Although this doesn’t necessarily make their prose grammatically incorrect, it affects… Continue reading

ESL students often find it difficult to use the correct verb form when combining with another verb. In English, the auxiliaries has, have and had… Continue reading

These time expressions are often confused. We use during to say when something happens. We use for to say how long something lasts. I was… Continue reading

We use during to talk about something that happens at a certain point within a period of time. I met Charles during my stay in… Continue reading

Time expressions show whether an action happened in the past or the present. For example, when you use the phrase ‘two years ago’, you are… Continue reading