by Martin Burke | Oct 30, 2020 | Everyday grammar
Many of my blogs are written in response to mistakes made by my students of English, and this one is no exception. Sometimes I make a note of these mistakes, correct my student at the time and then that’s the end of the issue. However, sometimes when I hear the same...
by Martin Burke | Oct 23, 2020 | This is how we say it
In a recent conversation, a student told me that she had ‘passed’ her holidays in Corsica. To a native English speaker, this sounds incorrect. When French learners of English want to translate ‘passer le temps’ into English, they need to know that there are two...
by Martin Burke | Oct 15, 2020 | Everyday grammar
One of my English language learners recently said to me that she was ‘waiting for’ the return of homeworking (French – télétravail) due to the current health crisis. Her use of the expression ‘waiting for’ gave me the impression that in some way she had decided to...
by Martin Burke | Oct 6, 2020 | Everyday grammar
Students of English will already be familiar with the modal verbs. They will already know that, for example, they have no infinitive form but that they belong to other verbs, in the case of ‘may’ and ‘might’, the verb ‘to be able’, and that they express not a simple...
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