On a recent Everyday Grammar program, we talked about the phrase “be willing to.” For example, you might say, “She was willing to travel during the rainy season.” The adjective “willing” belongs to a ...
Think of the perfect infinitive as "one step before the reference point"!One of the things students often struggle with in ...
Imagine you are in an American city. While standing along the street, you hear someone asking for directions. Our report today is not about asking for traffic directions. Instead, it is about another ...
This time, we will learn "verb + person + to-infinitive", which often appears in high school entrance exams.Using the ...
An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...
A worksheet with 10 questions to review the present tense along with tener + que + infinitive and ir + a + infinitive For every sentence, conjugate the verb in the present tense. Then, write the ...
Reader Don in Los Angeles County wrote recently with a question about a well-known grammar issue called a “split infinitive.” “I learned about them 50 years ago and I am somewhat sensitive about them ...