At first glance, this might seem very simple. Then, in just a moment, you realize that you don’t know which to choose. Is it at or in? Don’t worry! With a little study and some ...
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Coordination and Parallel Structures in English
In English, as in many other languages, coordination is frequently used to provide fluency to speech. @abaenglish explains how to form parallel structures in English through coordination. Click To Tweet Syntactic coordination is the alignment ...
Read More »Phrasal verbs you need to know at work
As a modern European language, English is generally not grammatically complicated, however it does have certain elements which are tricky and do not necessarily exist in other languages and one of these is phrasal verbs. ...
Read More »Reported speech in English
Reported speech is used to explain what somebody said, without quoting the exact words. For example, you could say: “I found an article that said that reported speech is used to explain what someone says ...
Read More »“Yet”, “Already” and “still”
Today we’re are focusing on unit 88 of the ABA course. We are going to learn how to use “yet”, “already” and “still” correctly in English. Let’s start off by looking at “yet.” We use ...
Read More »Not yet, still not and never
Today we are going to learn about the expressions, not yet, still not and never. Learning about not yet, still not and never with @ABAEnglish Click To Tweet Let’s start off with not yet. “Not ...
Read More »Simple past in questions and negative sentences
Today we are going to be looking at the simple past in questions and negative sentences. Remember that in negative sentences in the present we use the auxiliary “do” and “does” plus the word “not.” ...
Read More »Question tags in the simple past
You do remember how to use question tags, don’t you? Let’s take a quick look at some questions tags asking for confirmation in the present. For example: You like him, don’t you? You don’t eat fish, ...
Read More »Irregular verbs in English
We covered regular verbs in the previous unit, unit 66. So, today we are going to move forward and learn all about irregular verbs and how to use them correctly in English. Irregular verbs do ...
Read More »The past simple of regular verbs in English
Today we are going to be looking at how to use regular verbs in the simple past. If you can’t remember what regular verbs are, please refer to unit 65 for more information. Do you ...
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