Word Order in English Sentences: A Complete Guide
Welcome to the ELB Guide to English Word Order and Sentence Structure. This article provides a complete introduction to sentence structure, parts of speech and different sentence types, adapted from the bestselling grammar guide, Word Order in English Sentences. I’ve...
The True Treasure of Christmas: Phrasal Verbs Exercise
It’s that time of year again, with Christmas quickly coming and a great excuse to add some seasonal language exercises. Today, I’m sharing a new short story gap-fill exercise to test understanding of phrasal verbs, to go with the list I’m developing...
ELB Phrasal Verbs Master List: Grammar, Definitions and Examples for 400+ Verbs
Welcome to ELB phrasal master guide. This article explains the purpose and grammar of phrasal verbs, and describes how they fit into sentences (as adapted from the book Word Order In English Sentences). It also provides a list of phrasal verbs with definitions and...
Introducing the ELB Store!
I’m proud to announce the reopening of the English Lessons Brighton store, making my grammar guides and more available directly from this website. Please give it a look! In the early days of ELB I experimented with selling books directly on the website but took the...
Different Types of Language Varieties
I’ve had a few blog comments lately addressing how English is used or taught differently, and thought it would be a useful exercise to produce an article covering how we discuss varieties of a language. Some of the most active articles I have are ones where people...
Perspective and Points of View in English
After some interesting questions regarding points of view and pronouns, on the pronouns cases article, I felt it would be useful to share my more extensive look at perspective in English, as taken from the Advanced Writing Skills book. So here’s a slightly...
What is Style in English?
A common theme in my teaching is exploring the difference between clearly defined grammar rules and where English becomes flexible. Sometimes variations in English fall into regional or linguistic uses, but often it is a case of style, which can be defined by rules...
Word Order in English Sentences is now available in audio!
I’m thrilled to announce that my bestselling grammar guide, Word Order in English Sentences, is now available in audiobook format! You can skip straight to checking it out on Audible US here (Audible UK here) and it will soon be available from other audiobook...Phrasal Verbs Using “to do”
To continue my series on phrasal verbs (started last time with “to be”), today I’m looking at phrasal verbs using to do. This is a rather common root and we have phrasal verbs with very varied meanings. To do is usually followed by an object that describes...Want to Master English?
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