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…
В этой статье мы рассмотрим правила и примеры использования MUST и HAVE TO в английском языке. Как must, так и have to (have got to) используются для выражения обязанности или необходимости. Под обязанностью мы подразумеваем моральное или юридическое обязательство сделать что-либо. Например,…
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 грамматики существуют для того, чтобы мы не звучали как полные идиоты, когда говорим или пишем. Однако это не означает, что все правила грамматики высечены на камне. Иногда они сами себе противоречат, что нас…
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…
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 …
Наверное, каждый помнит из школы непрерывные наставления учителя: читать нужно с интонацией! Независимо от того, стихотворение это или проза, надо пытаться передать таким образом настроение стихотворения или характер героя, воссоздать яркую картину изображаемого! A bit challenging, isn’t it? Гораздо…