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 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 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…

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…

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 Проходят последние дни 2010 г., песчинка за песчинкой уходят в вечность... А мы шагаем вперед, переходим очередной рубеж... Что там впереди? Об этом мы спросим завтра, а сегодня давайте-ка совершим путешествие по уже пройденным…