ARE WE DONE LEARNING?

Is The Grammar Blog dead?

I am happy to inform you that the answer is no. We are back with our posts and curiosities about grammar and the English language. And also, I am happy to announce that three friends and I have just launched our online platform for cooperative learning, called LEARN.

It is a compilation of reliable sources and websites where you can practice English at your own pace and learn more on your own.

Here you are the link to our page. You can also access it by clicking on the link on the right tab.

Besides that, since our page is back, you are welcome to email me at jeanish101@gmail.com with questions on issues that I can attempt to clarify to you and to other people all over the world.

Hope I will see you around here!

Cheers,
J.

CAN THE PAST BE SIMPLE?

Well, the Simple Past was already mentioned before HERE. However, I believe it deserves its own entry in this blog. So, here you are:

We use the Simple Past to talk about actions that happened in a specific moment in the past.

e.g. I worked yesterday.
When? Yesterday.

Observe the paragraph below:


All the verbs in the paragraph above are in their simple past forms.

Some verbs undergo a simple transformation: we only add ed to the end. These are regular verbs:

We travelled to our countryhouse [on Sunday].

travelled - travel

.Some verbs change completely. These are irregular verbs:

We went to the club [on Saturday].

went - go

You can find a list of irregular verbs HERE.

However, in the negative and in the interrogative form, the verbs do not change. We use did instead of do.

Negative:

Present: I don't work on weekends.
Past: I didn't work last weekend.

Interrogative:

Present: Do you study English every day?
Past: Did you study English yesterday?

Are you ready to do some practice? Try it HERE and HERE.

See you soon!
J.