Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Let’s study The Past Perfect Continuous Tense Now:
Look at the following example:
Tom had been studying for two hours before his friend came.
Event in progress:studying. WHEN? before another event in the past. How long? for two hours
The Past Perfect Continuous Tense
The Form:
Subject + HAD + BEEN + Verb-ING
The Use:
1. The Past Perfect Continuous [...]
English Nouns – Countable Noun and Uncountable Noun
Countable Nouns:
usually take a / an or one in the singular
take a final s / es in the plural
Some countable nouns are irregular and do not take an ’s’ in the plural. Here are some common irregular countable nouns:
man – men
foot – feet
woman – women
foot – feet
child – children
Uncountable Nouns:
do not take a / an [...]
English Nouns and Noun Using
English Noun definition
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
Common nouns refer to any person, place, thing, idea, etc.
boy
house
water
town
religion
despair
Proper nouns refer to particular places, people, objects, ideas, etc.
George
the White House
Paris
Christian Science
New York
Nouns are used as the subjects of sentences, and as the objects of the verbs and prepositions.
Noun: Singular and Plural [...]
Using final S/ES in English
This free English grammar lesson is about using -S or -ES in English. Using -S or -ES whether it is a plural noun or a simple present verb tense when the subject is a singular nour or a singular third person pronoun is quite confusing to ESL learners.
Plural Noun:
Adding -S or -ES to a [...]
English Grammar Structure: Common Mistakes
This post is from one of the training series for Paragraph and Grammar Structure Training .
Mistakes are often made with word usage, “Which one do I chose?” Unfortunately, it’s not something that can be remedied with spell checker.
Here is a list of ten common word usage mistakes with explanations and examples of proper use:
1. There [...]
English Grammar Lesson: Article using – “A/An” and “The”
In English, Using the articles a/an or the is sometimes problem for English learners. In this lesson, we are going to present you the best way how to use them.
A/AN
Definition: Article A/An is called indefinite one in English grammar.
Use: A/AN is used before a singular noun that has a plural form. ‘A’ is used before [...]
English Grammar – Lesson 2(continued 1) – Conditionals
Free English Grammar video for every one learning English online.
This is the third lesson on conditionals. In this segment we look at conditional statements with “unless.” Level: high intermediate.
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Other free English Grammar Lessons:
English Grammar – Lesson 2(continued) – Conditionals
Learning English Grammar free online with English Grammar video by teacher Jennifer, an American teacher who are excellent in teaching English as a Second language.
This is the second lesson on conditionals. There is a review and expansion on present factual conditionals, and then we move on to look at factual conditionals in the future. Level: [...]
English Grammar – Lesson 2 – Conditionals
This is the first of several lessons on conditionals. In this lesson we begin with factual conditionals in the present. Level: intermediate – high intermediate.
Sentence Structures in English
Sentence Structures in English
In English, there are many different sentence structures and they are using in many different situations, in this lesson, we only talk about the normal /typical sentence structures. Let’s look at the following to learn about parts of English sentence.
Normal Sentence Structures in English:
