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Go to a Place But Don’t Go to an Action

18 April 2016 by Marc

Hello, it has been a while. I am just adding this because some of my students have had problems with ‘ing’ actions and ‘go’ verbs. “He went to shopping.” MISTAKE. “He went shopping.” CORRECT. Go to a place but don’t go to an action. Use ‘go to’, ‘went to’ or ‘gone to’ with places. “I … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Grammar Tagged: gerund, go, to

Use ‘To’, ‘At’ and ‘In’ with Locations

6 March 2014 by Marc

The prepositions of location ‘in’, ‘at’ and ‘to’ are quite difficult for beginners to use and even some advanced learners make mistakes with the words. Here are some examples to show how they are used when talking about locations. To Use with destinations. Let’s go to London. Come to my house. Don’t use with the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Grammar Tagged: at, beginner, in, locatives, prepositions, to

Understand and Tell the Time

3 March 2014 by Marc

Twelve o’clock, midday, noon or midnight? All are correct. Giving the time and understanding it should be easy but because there are a few ways to say the same time it can be difficult. Use 12-hour clock when speaking Only the army and people working in transport use 24-hour clock in speech to tell the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Grammar, Situation, Vocabulary Tagged: hours, minutes, o'clock, past, time, to

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