Hi, guys! I’ve decided to tell you about reported speech. There are basically three parts that we need to talk about: Statements, imperative sentences and questions. So let’s begin with STATEMENTS. Today I’d like to start with a quote from one of my favorite books. Harry Potter, the…
Hello, guys! Today I’m going to tell you about one of the most interesting words in the English language: the word LIKE. Do you know how we can use LIKE? What part of speech is it? What functions can it have? Let’s begin with a quote that I really like: “If you don’t like something,…
У мене є знайоме «дитя», яке в школі налякали PAST PERFECT, дитина, прийшовши зі школи, заявила, що час мовляв найскладніший, чому вона повинна розбиратися, і взагалі ці часи і ця англійська – нудьга смертельна. I was thinking over (подумала), як поєднати приємне з корисним, і запропонувала…
Тo begin with, I'd like to tell you that we have decided to change the concept of our blog and present you English Grammar from another view point so that it will be easier for you as a Ukrainian speaker. In our future posts we are going to draw some paralels between English and Ukrainian grammar…
The distinction between countable and uncountable nouns is fundamental in English, because only by distinguishing between these two forms we can understand when to use singular or plural verb forms and when to use the indefinite (a/an), definite (the) and zero articles or the appropriate quantifier…
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 (Bare Infinitive) To…
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…
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…
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…