grammar

Whether it be chocolate ice cream over other flavors, or getting going first thing in the morning as opposed to lounging in your PJs, it...

If you have a preference for something, you would like to have or do that thing rather than something else. Beware of the trap of not expres...

If you have a strong liking for something, you have a preference for it. You might have a preference for apples, but there are some days whe...

As modals of prohibition, MUSTN'T and CAN'T are both used to show that something is forbidden, prohibited or not allowed. They often...

THE PERFECT INFINITIVE is used with WOULD LIKE/LOVE/PREFER and one or two other verbs to refer to unreal past situations; things that never ...

Phrasal verbs can have transparent and therefore literal meaning which can be easily deduced from its parts. Their meaning can be semi-­lite...

GET/HAVE THE BETTER or THE BEST OF someone or something means surpass, outwit, overcome, defeat, etc. someone or something, often through no...

THE PERFECT INFINITIVE with TO (to have + past participle) when used after the verbs CLAIM and PRETEND, has the same kind of meaning as perf...

These three verbs are often confused and are incorrectly used even by higher level students. Let's get it right! CCOME We use COME to mo...

✔ To keep something in an existing state (from decline, making repairs, correcting problems)  - We need to maintain discipline in class  - I...

✔ Enjoyment: LIKE + ING: (+infinitive is also possible)  - I really like doing sports (like to do sports)  - Sarah likes talking to her frie...

Admirable, adorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, captivating, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, d...

Some of my students asked about the various uses of this word. So here we go then ladies and gentlemen 😎 🤘🏻  YET - Non-affirmative word  ...