By Adverbs, Teaching English

Hello! My name is Maria Lisette and I am teaching English as a second language (ESL) here in Mexico. I just started training at a new school here and found something odd in one of their manuals. It is a unit for frequency adverbs, but my problem is with the infinitive "to do". Can somebody...

HelloPlease look at the three sentences below, which I picked up online. 1. She spent the time in working at home 2. She spent the time working at home. 3. The time working at home is gradually increasing.Sentence #1 was traditionally deemed as a grammatical form, but people...

Rho, Ok, I'll play your game. Take your own medicine, fight fire with fire. "{Q1}. Are you intentionally ignoring the difference between 'before/after' as an adverb and 'before/after' as a conjunction ?" Are you intentionally making that assertion? Before and After are different by...

Rho, this is obvious you are not being honest and sincere. ......................................................................... Hello MrX. Your answer was just what I've been expected. It's really silly of me. I deeply regret now that I butted in. By the way my questions was: {Q1}....

So am I :） .................................................................................................................... Don't forget my questions, too, MrX ;-）Did you say: ask me everything, didn't you ? {Q1}. Are you intentionally ignoring the difference between 'before/after' as an...

Hello MrX. It's funny. I see. This is what you've been insisting. Okay. Now I'd like to ask your favour. Since I've spent a lot of time in this thread I have a right to ask. I've asked you several times the following two questions. QUESTION ONE. Are you intentionally ignoring the difference...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...

Hello Komountain I'm Paco from Japan. It has been a long time since we had the last talk. It's nice to know you look as fine as before. As you are far more advanced learner than me, I am not in a right position to answer your question. But I incidentally found in a Japanese online site . In...