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Your English Space
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Present Perfect Simple vs. Continuous
Oh. my. god. Claire. stop. Sorry everyone, but the problem with English isn't so much the singular tenses themselves, but the sometimes...
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Your English Space
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The 12 days of Christmas
is really a CRAZY song! It is what we call a Christmas carol, and for some reason us evil teachers often teach it to our young students...
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The present perfect continuous
Have you been following my blog recently? If you have, you've already read this post on the present perfect simple, so now it's time to...
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Collocations...huh?
What is a collocation? Well, in grammar terms, it means two words that must go together, specifically a verb + a noun. Think of them like...
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The present perfect simple
IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT SIMPLE! Don't despair, I'll try to make it as simple as possible, even though the basic grammar rules cannot be...
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What exactly is Thanksgiving?
I often hear the question, "what exactly is Thanksgiving?", and I sometimes don't know where to start. Should I explain the history?...
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How to complain with class
If you're reading this post, sometimes you complain. How do I know? Because you're human. And if you're not human, please get in touch...
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Do you use the future tense correctly?
I will. No, I won't! I'm going to. No, actually, I'm not going to... Do you really know the difference between the two future tenses?...
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How to talk about nature
This might seem like a strange topic, but trust me, there's a lot of useful words that you probably don't know in English, and you...
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Trick or treat?
Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat! Have you ever been trick-or-treating? It's a fun tradition that I remember...
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What, where, when...?
Questions, questions, questions. Do you know how to form them properly in English? As per usual, English likes to complicate things and...
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Making an invitation
Whether or not you are a social butterfly, at some point in your life you've had to make an invitation, formal, informal or both. We're...
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Is 'spell check' your best friend?
Let's face it. One of the worst things about writing in English is spelling. Or one of the worst things about English is its...
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The trouble with using the Present Simple
The present simple. It's SIMPLE, right? Easy. The easiest tense in English, that's why it's called the present SIMPLE, no?!?! WRONG. The...
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When I grow up, I want to be...
And you Edoardo? What do you want to be when you grow up? Voglio il posto fisso. Edoardo is 8 years old. He always wears a polo, and his...
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Just 5 minutes a day!
wake up. shower. coffee. run to university or work. eat something. go to the gym. go home and walk the dog (or play with the kids). make...
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Speaking English is ______
difficult impossible boring Well, I totally agree with you!!! Learning English (or any language for that matter) is a difficult,...
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I'll start in September...
Happy new [school] year! I hope you've had a wonderful summer and are ready to get back into the groove of things, be it work, school or...
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It's a wrap!
First of all, "it's/that's a wrap" is used in cinematography to say that a scene or a movie has been finished filming and everyone can go...
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