by Martin Burke | Nov 25, 2024 | Everyday grammar
Welcome back to our series on taming English tenses! If you’ve ever felt like time traveling in English is more confusing than figuring out how time machines work in movies, you’re not alone. In this, the second blog in this series, we’re diving into the Past Simple...
by Martin Burke | Nov 25, 2024 | Everyday grammar
Learning English can feel like trying to fit square pegs into round holes—especially when it comes to tenses. In the first of a series of blogs about tenses which are often confused, we look at two of the most frequently confused, which are the Present Simple and the...
by Martin Burke | Nov 24, 2024 | This is how we say it
In a recent lesson, one of my students said ‘I haven’t the time’. When I corrected her by saying ‘I don’t have the time’, she was unsure as to why this would be the case and why we need the auxiliary verb ‘to do’. After...
by Martin Burke | Nov 21, 2024 | Everyday grammar
Hello, English learners! Today, in the third of our blogs about potentially confusing tenses, we’re going to talk about the Present Perfect Simple and the Past Simple. These tenses can be tricky because they are used in different ways in British and American English....
by Martin Burke | Nov 21, 2024 | Everyday grammar
The Great Debate: Could/Couldn’t vs. Was/Wasn’t Able To English grammar can feel a bit tricky at times, especially when you’re deciding whether to use could/couldn’t or was/wasn’t able to to talk about the past. But don’t worry! Today, we’ll look at these phrases step...
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