In Present tenses^x, Articles^x, Simple present^x

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat “is noun phrase (a is determiner...

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...

Interesting points. I'm an ESL teacher in TN and found your article by doing a search on using "the present tense to express routine." I've been thinking about doing more drills that tie together the present tenses, not just simple present, but emphatic (if that's what you call it), and...

Hi Jazz, Thanks for saying I could correct your post on line. Re: your reply to Ali; 1. In English we always begin a new sentence with a capital letter, and we use a capital letter for people's names, and for names of places such as London, the Indian Ocean etc. So your greeting should...

Hello again, kynguyen You said: "In fact I think most of the verbs can be used with or without "to", right? For ex: I need to have a vacation. Or I need a vacation." You used the verb "need" as an exampe of the verbs that can be used with or without the particle "to". But the particle "to",...