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Download Exercise This week´s blog is about defining and non-defining relative clauses. Before I speak about them, let me explain what a relative clause is. A relative clause is a clause that we use to describe a noun. It basically has the same function as an adjective. For example we can say «I have a …

There are many idioms in English which have animal representation. Some of the meanings of these idioms are quite obvious, whilst others may be very strange and difficult to understand for the average language learner. Here are some of the more popular ones. Straight from the horse’s mouth – This means directly from the original …

As mentioned above, the Second conditional can be used to talk about now or the future. We use it when we are only imagining something. The construction of the Second conditional is ‘If + Past + Would (do).’ We can call this last part the Conditional tense. For example: — If I met Leonardo DiCaprio, …

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 …

Today I am going to talk about the verb ‘get’ and explain some of its meanings and give you some examples of each, thus making it easier for you to understand. The general meanings of the verb ‘get’ are ‘become’ and ‘obtain’. However, it has several other meanings too. When we follow ‘get’ with by …

For example, if the active voice sentence is “I broke the window” then the passive voice would become “The window was broken by me” and as you can see I changes to me in the passive voice. Other times you might need to change She to Her or He to Him. So, let’s try another …