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 ...
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Present perfect continuous
A very important tense used in English is the “present perfect continuous” tense. By now you should all know how to use the “present perfect” tense which was studied in unit 85 of the ABA ...
Read More »Apostrophes and Possessive Pronouns
This post originally appeared on the Magoosh TOEFL blog. Today we will look at the way apostrophes are used with possessive pronouns… or rather how they aren’t used, in most cases. For the most common ...
Read More »How to understand an Irish person
Hey everyone! How is your English coming along? Do you understand most accents? What about the Irish one? Well, in actual fact, Ireland has a variation of accents like most English speaking countries, but the ...
Read More »Learn the Second Conditional Through Popular Music
BY DAVID RECINE ON MARCH 30, 2016 IN FUN, GRAMMAR This post originally appeared on the Magoosh TOEFL blog. As Kate outlines in an earlier post, there are four grammar constructions for conditional statements—statements that ...
Read More »“There was” and “there were” in past simple
Howdy everyone! We are sure you love learning English so we always want to make it interesting and useful for you. In today’s post we are going to look at the past simple form of ...
Read More »Gerunds after verbs and prepositions
Hey ABA friends! Recently we have been focusing on the use of gerunds in English and when they should be used. In today’s post, we are going to focus on their use after a verb ...
Read More »Some differences between British and American English
How is every going ABA friends? You will probably have noticed when reading English that you have seen some words more than once in different places and noticed that their spelling changed sometimes. The thing ...
Read More »How to connect to ABA’s live classes
Hello, friends! A few months ago, ABA English started to broadcast live English classes through Facebook, presented by our Teacher Robin from Texas (USA). Students have been enthusiastic about the classes since the very first ...
Read More »Differences Between Scottish and Standardised English
We all know that English can be tricky at the best of times, but have you ever stopped to think about just how different English speaking accents are, especially in the relatively small United Kingdom? ...
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