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Improve your English by using English!
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Examples that use "simple present": My name is Laurie. I like chocolate. She doesn't like hot weather. Do you like to cook? She has long, wavy hair in a bun.
Good Evening. How's it going? I'm fine. How was your day? busy. How was your weekend? pretty good. What did you do? I went to an airshow in Leesburg with my family and some friends.
We took a reading test. Don't worry if it was difficult. It's supposed to be difficult. You may have a really good score even if you didn't finish it.
"Read All About It"
The "Oh's: are a little long. "Bite your tongue" means be quiet when you really want to say something. "The papers" are newspapers. "Wanna" is how we say "want to." "Gonna" is how we say "going to" Never write "wanna" or "gonna" in a formal essay, but you can use this spelling for texting or for a note to a close friend. If you like lyrics, you'll see them spelled these incorrect ways really often.
A few people practiced unscrambling sentences into Subject--Verb--Object order.
A subject is the main noun. The verb is an action word. The object usually receives the action.
Examples in Subject--Verb--Object order: I ate chicken. You took a test. He read the book. She did her homework. We will study a lot in English class. They drove the car.
Subjects: I, You, He, She, We, They. Verbs: ate, took, read, did, will study, drove.
Objects: chicken, test, book, homework, a lot, car.
Auxiliary Verbs--helping verbs. When you have a verb that's two or more words, the main verb tells the meaning and the auxiliary verb(s) usually shows the tense. Auxiliary verbs also start yes/no questions. Do, be, have, should, can and will are common auxiliary verbs.
I enjoyed meeting you today. We met our classmates. We talked about the class. We talked to each other.
Some of my students improved quickly by watching lyrics videos while listening to the songs. .
A verb is an action word. The verb tense indicates whether the action happens in the past, the future, right now, all the time, etc. We practiced asking questions with do or did.
