Reported speech and indirect speech mean the same thing: They allow you to express what someone has said. This sentence, “He said he was studying English”, is an example of reported speech. But how do you conjugate the verbs? Is it “he said he was studying” or “he said he studied“? Both are correct depending on the situation. Learn how to say it correctly every time with Ronnie’s quick and easy chart. Your friends said they watched this lesson. So what are you waiting for?
Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar
This is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples...
With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the complex specifics...
Ćwiczenia i testy gramatyczno-leksykalne (Grammar & Vocabulary Exercises and Tests)
The book comprises numerous grammar and vocabulary exercises divided into 8 sections, designed as revision material for learners at B2-C1 learners, preparing for FCE, CAE, as well as Matura exam (extended version).
The eight chapters include:
1. Tenses and verb forms; 2. Grammar; 3. Paraphrasing; 4. Gap filling; 5. Translations; 6. Word formation; 7. Vocabulary; 8. Collocations.
Apart from one chapter (translations), the book can be used by any English speaker.
A plurale tantum is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for referring to a single object. (for example: jeans, dibs, means, clothes, binoculars, etc.)
Here you can find a comprehensive list of such nouns.
