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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 ...

Learning English from musicals? Precisely, they are far more suitable than you may imagine. It’s often said that you learn best by watching or listening, for example your favorite films or songs. Songs make a ...

Howdy! Have you ever been in a situation where you would like to get to know someone better but you don’t know how to initiate a conversation? Have you ever been trapped in a lift ...

Today we are going to look at how to agree with negative statements in English using “neither” and “either.” Let’s get to it! Either, neither… learn how to agree with negative sentences with this @ABAEnglish ...

Hey ABA family! We know, you’ve always wondered about the origin of the English language. Well, wonder no more! Today we’re going to take a walk down memory lane and see what factors influenced the ...

It’s definitely very convenient and easy to book your next holiday at a travel agency without having to struggle with a different language. However, have you ever thought that you can find much better prices ...

Do you know how and when to use the past simple and the present perfect correctly in English? If not, don’t worry because we are here to show you exactly how! Need some help with ...

This blog post originally appeared on the Magoosh IELTS blog. You took the IELTS exam and thought you did well. But when the scores came out 13 days after the exam, you found that you ...

What’s new, everybody? At ABA we are all great and have been working hard to make sure you have as much material as you can to continuously improve your English. As we all know, the ...

“Must” has no past form, so we generally use the past form of “to have to” to refer to past obligations or strong necessities. Let’s take a look at some examples, shall we? She had ...

What’s new everybody? When people study, irrespective of the subject, one of the most difficult things can be memorising the information that you have learnt. It could be that you understand the technicalities of the ...

We are going to look at conditional sentences using the modals “can”, “must”, “may” and “might”, instead of “will.” The conditional used with these modal verbs is usually the first conditional. Its purpose is to ...

Good morning everyone! So, as we all know, English is a rich language which is full of idiomatic expressions. These are sentences that have a specific meaning which cannot be translated literally to other languages. ...

As we all know, English has an array of accents and dialects that make it a very rich language to learn. There are times however when accents can seem so similar to an untrained ear ...

Sentence Connectors are a great way of improving your English. Why? Well, we use them to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences. Today we are going to look at coordinating conjunctions. I just ...

Hello ABA friends! Have you heard about South Africa? No, not the south of Africa, South Africa, a country located at the very southern tip of the continent. Well, there are about 5 million people ...