English education

We should start our grammar with next terms: The Subject is the noun which the Verb belongs to; The Agent is the maker of an action. When we talk about the Subject of a sentence, what object do we usually make as the Subject? How to convert an active sentence into its passive form: 1. Use the Object of the active sentence as the Subject; 2. Put the helping verb be into the tense which the Subject (= the Agent) of the active sentence does an action in + add the Past Participle; 3. Turn the Subject...

A prefix goes before a root of a word and it has a special meaning (it does change). Concentrate on the root.

The gerund form look like continuous verbs, but it's actually a noun, so they can be placed after all prepositions. The gerunds can be the subject of a sentence (it’s very formal and not common for infinitives). The infinitive form can be placed after an adjective. If you want to emphasize what is something like to do, you should use infinitives (it's more common to use an infinitives), e...

So we left off yesterday with a big question: «HAVE you ever...?» When we ask that question, are we expecting an answer related to a certain point in time? We’re not, right? Because we are asking about just «ever». This word «ever» means at any point in your life. So it doesn’t really matter how long ago it was. It doesn’t really matter when it was. We just want to know the information you’ve done. We will continue our theme today, but we will specifically contrast this with our Past Simple, because there can sometimes be some confusion in there...

Let’s get right into our grammar for today where we're talking about this big question in the Present Perfect – «HAVE you ever...?» Pretty much you just want to find out whether someone has done something in their life, but this one is structured using the Past Perfect. If I want to know whether any of you have maybe tried sushi in your lives, how would I ask that question? Yeah, «HAVE you ever EATEN sushi before?» So, this is a key word here – the HAVE. You'll often see HAVE if it's Present Perfect, which we're only focusing on right now...