Lighten up your conversational English with IDIOMS -2013-

Whether we like it or not, the English speaking workplace is overflowing with idioms.Here is the list of idioms which one can use at his or her office. Expand your industry-specific and idiomatic vocabulary.Happy Learning !

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Simple past and past continuous -2013-

The simple past and the past continuous are two tenses commonly used to make general statements about the past. Although they are both past tenses their uses are quite different. The simple past tense is only used to say that something happened at some time in the past. I went to a Chinese restaurant yesterday. [...]

Absolute adjectives -2013-

Some adjectives express ideas that cannot be graded. For example, a person can’t be more or less dead. In the same way, a sphere can’t be more or less round. In grammars these adjectives are called non-gradable or absolute adjectives. Non-gradable adjectives do not have comparative or superlative forms. There are very few non-gradable adjectives, [...]

Teaching the present continuous tense -2013-

If you are an ESL teacher you should know how difficult it is to teach tenses. Teaching the present continuous tense immediately after teaching the simple present tense can be confusing for students.

Learning the simple present tense -2013-

This way is perhaps the first form tense ESL students learn. While learning this tense form, it is always a good idea to start with sentences using a form of the verb to be.