Second home owning – lexis

By Rosamund Place | January 12, 2010

(to have) a rant (about someone or something) – to speak /shout in an uncontrolled, loud, angry or confused way yes, I am biased – the writer of the letter is making it clear straight away that he has a vested personal and/or financial interest in justifying his point of view before anyone criticises him…

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Present Perfect Simple and Continuous – questions

By Rosamund Place | May 21, 2007

Present Perfect Continuous – questions The present perfect simple is used when answering the questions ‘how much‘, how many‘ or ‘how many times‘ of completed actions: How many exams have you had? I have had all of them. The present perfect continuous is used when answering the question ‘how long‘ of an activity that is…

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Choose from these future forms

By Rosamund Place | January 19, 2007

Choose from these future forms will not appear will have come up with ‘ll be planning ‘ll be able to ‘ll resolve will have arrived ‘ll be‘ll have missed will be doing ‘ll give a go ‘ll be trying  

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