The passive voice in English
The passive voice is one of those things that really confuse students, not because it’s hard but because you first need to understand some grammar words and ideas that we don’t really think about in daily life. But once you understand those, it’s actually quite easy! You probably have seen complicated diagrams like the one […]
Reported speech
Reported speech or indirect speech is a tricky part of English learning because there are many things to think about, and it gets used a lot so there’s no way to avoid it. Even if you do try to avoid it, you will hear people using it and if you don’t understand how it works […]
All the English tenses
By the time our students reach Level 3 or Level 4, they realise that English has a lot of tenses. So: how many tenses are there in English? The answer can be a bit complicated, because you need to understand 3 things: moods, tenses and aspects. In our classes we don’t usually explain all these […]
