Should we say IN the end or AT the end?

🎁 Download free PDF + quiz ✨ $1 Grammar E-Books 😃 Advanced English Grammar Course In this English lesson, we tackle a common mistake by focusing on 10 uncountable noun examples that should never have an 's' added. Understanding countable and uncountable nouns is essential for a ... Show More

🎁 Download Free PDF + Quiz 😃 NEW Prepositions Pro Challenge ✨ Espresso English Academy In my last lesson, I taught you how to use IN, ON, and AT for time and place. But wait - there's more - lots more! Native English speakers also use IN, ON, and AT to talk about situations and ... Show More

🎁 Download Free PDF + Quiz 😃 NEW Prepositions Pro Challenge ✨ Espresso English Academy Wondering when to use "in," "on," or "at"? This English lesson teaches you how to use these common English prepositions. You'll learn how to distinguish between "in on at" and use the correct ... Show More

In this lesson, our goal is to find out how to ask someone to do a favour for us. We'll meet the expression "rendre un service à quelqu'un". We'll also re-visit the expression "il y a" but in the Immediate Future form. Finally, we'll study how to deal with the English verb "to ge ... Show More

<p>In this episode of the My English Matters podcast, Madam Azimah goes through several pronunciation exercises to help you pronounce words ending in &quot;ed&quot; (like &quot;decided&quot;, &quot;attracted&quot;, &quot;attached&quot; and &quot;slipped, for example) more clearly ... Show More

Next in our series in English grammar: gerunds and infinitive phrases! In this podcast lesson, we discuss the pattern Verb + Noun or Pronoun + Infinitive Phrase. 

When we bump into someone we haven’t met for a while, we’ll commonly ask them what they’ve been up to. That’s the topic of this lesson. We'll work with a variety of useful expressions including: 'Ça fait…?', 'pas mal de' and 'Ça a mis…'. We'll also see how to make use of the verb ... Show More

In this lesson, we'll be dealing with some internet-related vocabulary. We'll meet some other useful expressions, too, including "I don't want to complicate my life!", "I'm not promising anything" and "It would be good if..." This last expression will require the subjunctive. Let ... Show More

If you want to be confused with English grammar, just look at the problem of gerunds and infinitive phrases! At the ESL Help! Desk, with our podcasts, we make it easy for you. In this lesson, we discuss verbs when the object is an infinitive phrase. 

When is a verb followed by a gerund, and when is it followed by an infinitive? 

When is a verb followed by a gerund, and when is it followed by an infinitive?