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The passive voice Posted by Gabriele on Jun 3, 2014

Let’s talk about the passive tense, an often disparaged and misunderstood verb tense in English. The passive tense is a grammatical construction used in writing and speaking. It is a verb tense, but is also often called a “voice.” When the passive tense is used the noun or noun phrase (which is the object in…

First Rule of Learning English… Posted by Gabriele on Feb 21, 2014

I know many ESL learners get frustrated by English grammar, spelling, and pronunciation rules because it often seems like there are no rules or at least the rules are often broken. If you ever feel this way then the picture above probably sounds about right to you. This picture, and a similar saying, is taken…