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 ...
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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 »“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 »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 »Gerunds after adjectives and prepositions
What’s up everyone! As we all know, English grammar can sometimes be tricky as it can seem like there is no logic behind the rules. In today’s post, we are going to focus on the ...
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? ...
Read More »Questions with “must” and “have to”
Hey everyone, what’s up? Forming questions in English is not always very easy because sometimes we have to change the structure of the sentence. In today’s blog post we are going to have a look ...
Read More »Present perfect with “since”, “for” and “just”
Hey ABA friends! It’s time for more grammar fun! Today we are going to focus on something which can sometimes cause problems for non-native English speakers. The use of “since”, “for” and “just” with the ...
Read More »Present simple and continuous with future meaning
What’s new everyone? It’s that time of the day again where we start to focus on our English and what we can do to improve it. Today we are going to be looking at the ...
Read More »Negative sentences with “must” and “should”
What’s new everyone? As we have mentioned in previous blog posts, “must” and “should” serve for obligations and suggestions/advice. In today’s blog post, we are going to look at their structure in negative form and ...
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