What do these words have in common? Well, they’re all compound nouns : two words that join together to form another word. There are many of these in English. In some cases, the two words join together to form one word (tooth + paste = toothpaste); in other cases, they are joined by a hyphen […]
Simple future expresses a future action. Future continuous shows what will be taking place at a particular future time. Future perfect takes the future as the point from which it looks back at an earlier action. The future of smart watches will depend on two things : their intuitive interfaces and multi-tasking. Will here conveys […]
We can use the Past Perfect to refer to an action that happened before another Past Simple action. For example: “When I arrived at the cinema, the film had already started.” 8:30pm: The film started. 9pm: I arrived at the cinema. “The film had already started when I arrived at the cinema:’ We form the […]
There are many expressions and constructions we can use to express Emphasis in English. The passive voice The terrorist was arrested by FBI. Cleft sentences It was me who broke the window. Own I used my own computer. Do + verb (affirmative) Yes! I do like you. Fronting What you think you are doing! Indeed […]
Only is an adjective, an adverb and a conjunction. It combines with several other common words to create some useful phrases and collocations. Only: the adjective As an adjective, only means “single”. It often combines with the nouns “person”, “reason” and “way”: • I was the only person in the shop. • The only reason […]
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which we compare two or more unlike things that have some resemblance in common. When I say “Life is a journey”, there’s something in common between the journey with its moments of success/failure and life with its ups/downs challenges. I want to show you some examples: – […]