Greetings: I am helping a student learn English but I am having trouble explaining some grammar to him. In the sentence, “He lives in Britain.”, he understand that the third person singular verb always has an “-s” or “-es” attached to it.

Hmm... So as denotes purpose, why? I bought a dictionary to learn English. The infinitive (to learn) on its own is enough to denote a reason. You can also say: I bought a dictionary to learn English. Wouldn't place not between to and the verb.

Alright, the sentence is "It's time you learn English." Now I'm pretty damned sure there's something wrong with having the two verbs like that, but I'm not sure exactly what's wrong with it, if anything at all. Any

Method OF Learning is totally right, because here it's a noun. You could also use FOR , but I don't see any reasons to change that. But if your intention is using "learning" as a verb , like "I use this method to learn

i know that i need to add capital letters but that wasn't my question... But when you ask if something is correct and it has an incorrect element, it would be remiss of us to not point that out. Oddly, we expect that when people come to a

Thank you very much CJ, Zerox, and Carson. You all have given me very valuable advices. After reading through all you said carefully, and then watching a couple of English TV programmes, I believe I can now tell the difference! The ending /z/ in

Hello, Interesting thread. Just to let you know that in English we never say 'are you agree' because 'agree' is a verb (though it's a very common mistake by learners, I guess because we use an adjective to say we agree in many languages).

Today is Tuesday,September 12, 2007 . I was joint a interview in S-Fone corp . It’s hard to pass because it’s very difficult . IQ part I did quite well but english part I did very bad .Tuesday next week , the result of interview will report, I am

Hello, I am an English teacher who never thought he would post a message on the internet, but it just seemed so appropriate. Basically, English is so difficult because of its innumerable exceptions to rules. A student told me the other day, "at