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 going…

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 have a subject Ø express a complete…

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…

This time I am going to draw your attention to some delicate item of the English language. To begin with, you’ve got to remember that each time you learn new vocabulary, it is important to make sure you know the following: • the meaning of the word you’re learning; • collocation…

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. Cardinal J. Newman Минають останні дні року 2010, піщинка за піщинкою відходять у вічність… А ми крокуємо вперед, переходимо черговий рубіж… Що там попереду? Про це ми запитаємо завтра, а сьогодні давайте-но здійснимо подорож…