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We use the words ‘who’, ‘which’ and ‘that’ at the beginning of a relative clause. These words are called relative pronouns. We use ‘who’ for people, we use ‘which’ for things and animals and we use ‘that’ for people, things and animals. For example we say “I know a man, who lives on a boat”, …

Before we get started, it’s important to know the construction of the third conditional, because that will allow us to make our third conditional sentences. Its construction is “if + past perfect + would have (done).” I’ve put the word ‘done’ there simply as an example; in reality, we put a past participle after the …

En línia amb entrades anteriors, vam continuar amb els nostres apunts gramaticals encaminats a mostrar la, també, abundant idiomaticidad de la llengua anglesa, en moltes ocasions intraduïble o sense equivalència a altres llengües. En molts casos -tal com s’evidencia en els dos exemples que serveixen d’introducció a aquest article- no quedarà més opció que buscar …

Fauna i fraseologia sempre han anat de la mà en l’estructura lingüística de la societat. En trobem exemples abundants des de les velles rondalles, passant per les llegendes populars, fins arribar als primers contes clàssics. En la tradició oral i el folklore i, amb ells, en els refranys, aforismes i sentències, abunden les criatures animals …

This week, we’ll be taking a look at the idea of Mixed conditionals. The time in which we use the Second and Third conditionals is quite limited. For the Second conditional, we must refer the present or the future. With the Third conditional, we have to refer to the past. Before we go on, let’s …

The first thing that we should know about auxiliary verbs is that they don´t tell us the action in a sentence but they help the main verb in the sentence. The primary auxiliary ‘DO’ is used in the present simple tense and the past simple tense. We generally use it in questions and negative sentences. …

When you arrive at a party or meeting and don’t know anyone else there, you need to ‘break the ice’ – i.e. you need to do or say something that will introduce yourself to other people and make the situation more comfortable, e.g. ‘Dave broke the ice by offering the other people at the meeting …

“I eat apples every day.” This sentence contains the transitive verb “eat”. We have the subject “I” and “apples” are our object. Consider this next one. “John threw the ball at the wall.” In this sentence, “John” is our subject and “the ball” is our object. Now let’s look at some intransitive verbs. “The sun …

To start, let’s look at the word ‘although.’ This word is used when we want to present a contradiction. For example, if someone was born and raised in Paris, we would obviously expect them to speak French, wouldn’t we? So consider the following example: ~ Although he’s from Paris, he doesn’t speak French. The underlying …

In fact there are several idioms simply to feature the word ‘ball’. Another way of saying that we want to start something – ‘to kick off’ is one way of saying this, as we saw in ‘Tip of the Week’ – is to say that we will ‘get the ball rolling’, e.g. ‘let’s get the …