Archive for 'English Grammar'
Comparison of Adjectives Posted by heather on May 19, 2012
I am tall but Mary is taller and Tom is the tallest of us all. Can you find the adjective in the sentence above? Remember, an adjective is a word that describes or tells us more about a noun or a pronoun. If you said “tall” then you were correct. Tall is the adjective in…
Post Editing (Part II) Posted by Gabriele on May 15, 2012
Todays (Today’s) post is a little different than my usual posts. I’ve written this post with a number of common grammer (grammar) and spelling errors in it that I want you to find. This is like a game of ESL hide-and-seek! Tomorrow (Tomorrow) I will re-post this exact same passage highlighting all the errors that…
Post Editing (Part I) Posted by Gabriele on May 14, 2012
Todays post is a little different than my usual posts. I’ve written this post with a number of common grammer and spelling errors that I want you to find. This is like a game of ESL hide-and-seek! Tomorrow I will re-post this exact same passage highlighting all the errors that I have made so you…
Make a Metaphor Posted by heather on May 12, 2012
Hello there! I hope that you have been having an enjoyable week. Today I have a poem for you. It is called What is the Sun? and is written by Wes Magee. Have a read through it. If you feel confident enough go ahead and read it aloud. What is the Sun? the Sun is…
Conversation Practice: Animals and Pets Posted by heather on May 9, 2012
Today I thought we could try something new. One thing people who want to learn English sometimes struggle with is getting to practice talking. Of course we can’t quite practice in the traditional sense of standing in a room and chatting but we do have our Facebook group! So here is what I am going…
A versus An Posted by heather on May 5, 2012
Have you ever been confused about when to use a and when to use an? You may have heard the “rule” that you put an a before words that start with a consonant and an an before words that start with a vowel. While that is a semi-good starting point, there is actually a little…
“Within” vs. “with in” vs. “in” Posted by Gabriele on May 4, 2012
A while back I wrote a post on the difference between can not and cannot and in the comments to that post a reader asked me to write about the difference between within and with in and without and with out. Well, it turns out there really is not a difference in meaning between without…