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Facebook Twitter Google-plus Envelope Good Vs. Well Go to Blog DO THIS TEST Choose the correct word for each phrase. 1.You read ____. A. good B. well 2. It’s a ____ recipe. A. good B. well 3. You feel ____. A. good B. well 4. How are you doing? A. Read more…
Facebook Twitter Google-plus Envelope Pretty Go to Blog Defo, you know PRETTY as an adjective, when we say that a girl is PRETTY. Yet, PRETTY is also used as an adverb, and you’ve heard that too. It means QUITE and used a lot in informal conversations. Mind, that as it’s Read more…
Facebook Twitter Google-plus Envelope Adjectives NOT before nouns Go to Blog MIND THESE ADJECTIVES! What’s wrong with them? Nothing… But they never come before nouns! They never come BEFORE nouns! And all of them start with A! Mystery…. AFLOAT Max didn’t know how to swim but the armbands kept him Read more…
Facebook Twitter Google-plus Envelope BEING + ADJECTIVE Go to Blog Why do we say “Mary is BEING rude” instead of “Mary IS rude”? Is it some kind of mistake? Of course, it’s not. Let’s find out, why we can use BE in a continuous form. TO BE + BEING + adjective Read more…
Facebook Twitter Google-plus Envelope So Far Vs. By Far Go to Blog Guys, do you know the difference between SO FAR and BY FAR? SO FAR = until now. Often used with the present perfect tense. “Amélie” is the most interesting movie I’ve seen SO FAR. What do you think Read more…
Facebook Twitter Google-plus Envelope Hard vs. Hardly Go to Topics Do you study HARD or you HARDLY study? HARD can be an adjective and here we won’t have any problems. It goes before a noun and it’s always HARD. But there are TWO adverbs: HARD and HARDLY. Let’s find out Read more…