Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Present Perfect or Simple Past?


Introduction

There are some differences between the Present Perfect Tense and the Simple Past Tense.

Has the time period finished?

RuleExampleExplanation
The present perfect is used when the time period has NOT finished.have seen three movies this week.(This week has not finished yet.)
The simple past is used when the time period HAS finished.saw three movies last week.(Last week has finished.)

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Conditionals


There are four kinds of conditionals

The Zero Conditional:
(if + present simple, ... present simple)
If you heat water to 100 degrees, it boils.
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The First Conditional:
(if + present simple, ... will + infinitive)
If it rains tomorrow, we'll go to the cinema.
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The Second Conditional:
(if + past simple, ... would + infinitive)
If I had a lot of money, I would travel around the world.
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The Third Conditional
(if + past perfect, ... would + have + past participle)
If I had gone to bed early, I would have caught the train.
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Thursday, 13 February 2014

Reflexive pronouns and "each other"


When the Subject and the Object in a sentence refer to the same person or thing we use a Reflexive Pronoun.

Subject
Pronouns
Reflexive
Pronouns
IMyself
YouYourself
HeHimself
SheHerself
ItItself
WeOurselves
You (pl)Yourselves
TheyThemselves

If you are using YOU in the plural, the reflexive pronoun is yourselves.
Examples of sentences using reflexive pronouns:
My daughter likes to dress herself without my help.
I taught myself to play the guitar.
My cat always licks itself.

When to use reflexive pronouns