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A Christmas Story: A free audio e-book for you! 18 Dec 2008 | 02:00 am
[display_podcast] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And I send this to all of our readers, no matter whether you celebrate Christmas in your culture or not – may you all have a wonderful and pros...
Simple Past: Part 2 – Forming the Negative 16 Nov 2008 | 07:40 am
Simple past : Negative form To form the negative of a sentence in the Simple Past you need to use the past form of the auxiliary verb ‘do’ – that is ‘Forming the Negative of the simple past To form ...
Simple Past: Forming the Simple Past 4 Nov 2008 | 05:05 am
Video Lesson 1 of 3 Forming the Simple Past, sometimes called the Preterite tense, is really pretty easy… at least for regular verbs. You take the subject, follow it with the verb ending in –ed and ...
Finding an Online English Language Teacher 18 Oct 2008 | 12:54 am
By Anthony Hughes MLitt., Cert TESOL CEO English4Today From the English4Today series on online learning More and more websites and Internet services are offering to find you the ideal English langu...
More problem prepositions arriving… 5 Mar 2008 | 10:32 pm
Question from Cathy in Canada: Can we say I arrive to work at 9 o’clock or do we need to use “at”? Also can we say I was late to class or do we need to use “in”? Thank you. Answer: Hi Cathy, thanks...
Hear and Listen: Easy confusion 13 Feb 2008 | 10:24 pm
Question from Khadija in Morocco: What is the difference between ‘hear’ and ‘listen’? Answer: Hi, Khadija. Thank’s for your question, I’m sure that the difference between ‘listen‘ and ‘hear‘ is not...
Accepting with no regrets 2 Feb 2008 | 01:05 am
Question from English4Today member Gireesh in the United Arab Emirates: Which one of the following sentences is correct having the meaning like “cannot accept…” ? 1) We regret to accept your letter…...
‘How about’ vs ‘what about’ : same difference? 1 Feb 2008 | 11:55 pm
Question from English4Today member Khadija in Morocco When can we use “how about” and when can we use “what about”? Hi Khadija. This is another one of those situations, and we’ve discussed quite a f...
Hunting the possessive … again 27 Jan 2008 | 11:19 pm
Question from Jadie in the USA How would the word hunter be spelled in the following sentence? The sentence might go something like, “The hunter’s steel trap secured my foot to the forest floor.” W...
Acronyms : OMG they are everywhere! 24 Jan 2008 | 10:27 pm
Question from English4Today member Vin in the USA: What is it called when letters are substituted for words, i.e., LOL stands for Laugh out loud. Hi Vin, they are everywhere and they are called ‘acr...
