Joanne Reilly 
English Academy
 

This was probably the first tense, or time period, that you learnt when you started studying English grammar. For this reason it's...

Will is used to talk about the present or the future. Would is the past tense form of will, so is used to talk about the past. It can...

Both words are used to talk about the start time of an activity but are used differently. From Is used to talk about when an activity is...

To remember or to remind. What's the difference? They are both verbs relating to memory. To remember is something you do when thinking...

Adjectives are the words used to describe a noun (a person or thing), for example: the red box, the quiet mouse, the big cat, the fast...

Are you doing something? Or is something being done to you? This is the starting point for deciding the subject or object of a sentence....

Which word means you do something more; often or sometimes? Do you often go to the gym in the evening? Or do you sometimes read a book?...

Few or a few? Little or a little? What's the difference you might ask? Let's start with few and little. Few is used with countable nouns,...

This is something that I hear people getting mixed up quite often, so I decided to look into the rules for when to use little and when to...

As well as using in, on or at to talk about location (see below for my earlier posts) we can add  'of'' for some more advanced language!...

How much ice-cream would you like? How many scoops of ice-cream would you like? We use much when we cannot count the amount of something....

We use the words this, that, these and those to indicate, to point to, or to refer to things that are usually in our immediate...

Paraphrasing a question shows the examiner that you have understood it and that you have a good range of vocabulary. It also helps you to...

Surely they both mean the same thing don't they? Does the apostrophe really matter? Its Shows ownership of something and is used when...

Both are great words to use to show you are asking a question, but we need to be careful with the structure of that question. What does...

The past perfect is used to talk about events that took place in the past, but it is different to the past simple. The past simple is...

We use 'who' to talk about people. "The people who live in London." We use that and which to talk about things. "Did you drink the milk...

Is Granny sitting by the fire or beside the fire? She is actually doing both since in many cases by and beside can be used...

We know the rule, if a word starts with a vowel: a. e, i, o or u we use an in front of it. If a word starts with a consonant, not a...

This blog post looks at when we use the present perfect (I have done) or the past simple (I did). It is raining and I cannot find my...