Examines the difference between ‘I’m glad you can come’ and ‘I’m glad you could come’, showing how the choice depends on when the conversation takes place. Also addresses the could vs was/were able to rule.
Explains why both ‘it hasn’t rained for a week’ and ‘it hasn’t been raining for a week’ are grammatically correct, and why negative forms of the present perfect do not always mirror their positive counterparts.
An examination of backshift in reported speech, explaining when it is required and when it is optional. Challenges the common textbook rule that backshift is always necessary.
A curated playlist of grammar livestreams answering learner questions on a wide range of topics including modal verbs, reported speech, relative clauses, the infinitive and gerund, adverbial clauses, tense and aspect, prepositions, collocations, and connected speech.
A digital flipbook providing a practical introduction to transformational-generative grammar, covering sentence structure, syntax, and applications to language teaching.
A full-length introduction to transformational grammar covering basic sentence structure, the present simple tense, negatives, questions, emphasis, and the major word classes.
A video series introducing transformational grammar at beginner to intermediate level, covering basic sentence structure, the present simple tense, negatives, questions, emphasis, and the major word classes including pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and articles.
A grammar series teaching English in context at intermediate level, covering reported speech and backshift, the present perfect, modal verbs, conditionals, the passive voice, and conjunctions, with attention to common errors and descriptive grammar.
A playlist covering the perfect forms of the English verb at beginner to intermediate level, explaining the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect, and the distinction between simple, continuous, and perfect aspect.
An advanced grammar series covering the present perfect and aspect, modal verbs, reported speech and backshift, the passive voice, phrasal and prepositional verbs, gerunds and participles, determiners, and dependent and noun clauses.