So far we have looked at such verb forms as GERUND and THE FULL INFINITIVE, so this time I am going to show you how THE BARE INFINITIVE is used. At first let me remind you that THE BARE INFINITIVE is simply a base verb which has no "TO" in front of a verb, like; Speak…
У цій статті ми розглянемо правила та приклади використання MUST та HAVE TO в англійській мові. Як must, так і have to (have got to) використовуються для висловлювання обов'язку чи необхідності. Під обов'язком ми маємо на увазі моральне чи юридичне зобов'язання зробити щось. Наприклад, батьки…
Although we often talk about "future tenses", technically there are no future tenses in English - only different ways of talking about the future, using special constructions, other tenses or modal verbs. And if you are more or less familiar with forms like “will”, “be…
There’s a large group of adjectives which can have an –ind or –ed ending. To name a few: excited-exciting, interested-interesting, annoyed-annoying. It is not difficult to notice that they are formed from verbs (to excite, to interest, to annoy). But what is the difference between…
In this article I am going to cover two expressions that we use to talk about the FUTURE in English – WILL and BE GOING TO! Although the two forms look alike in sense, they often express two very different meanings. These different meanings may seem too abstract at first, but with time and practice,…
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions (Martin H. Fischer) Правила граматики існують для того, щоб ми не звучали як повні ідіоти, коли говоримо чи пишемо. Однак це не означає, що всі правила граматики висічені на камені. Іноді вони самі собі суперечать, що нас злить: вивчили…
Hello, my dear readers! After a half a year break, I am with you again ready to teach you something new about English Grammar. Hope you are doing well and progressing in English learning. Our today’s topic is Basic Questions. We will learn how to ask questions using different tenses, how to give…
It is a known fact that learning to use a foreign language even at the elementary level means learning to build simple though grammatically correct and meaningful sentences. To do so we always have to remember that any sentence must: Ø have a verb Ø …
Напевно, кожний пам’ятає зі школи безперервні настанови вчителя: читати потрібно з інтонацією! Не залежно від того, чи це вірш, чи проза, треба намагатися передати таким чином настрій вірша чи характер героя, відтворити яскраву картину зображуваного! A bit challenging, isn’t it? Набагато…