Reported speech: indirect speech
Reported speech: indirect speech Indirect speech focuses more on the content of what someone said rather than their exact words. In indirect...
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present perfect (3): perfect or past (advanced points)
causes and origins: Who gave you that?We normally use the present perfect when we are thinking about past events together with their present...
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present perfect 2: perfect or past
Thinking about the past and present together We use the present perfect if we are thinking about the past and present together. We do not use the...
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discourse markers
Discourse means ‘pieces of language longer than a sentence’. Some words and expressions are used to show how discourse is constructed. They can...
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The correct tense for future plans in English
Make sure you use the correct tense when you talk about future plans in English. Here are some tips to do this, as well as other phrases to use...
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