Festive Christmas Language: a Mixed Tenses Exercise
It’s that time of year again: Festive Season, meaning festive articles on ELB! Adding to my collection of seasonal Christmas articles which you can find here, today I’ve got another mixed tenses exercise. As we did in October for Halloween, this exercise tests...
Creepy Halloween Mixed Tense Exercise
It’s October, so Halloween is coming and it’s Spooky Season, which we are a fan of here on ELB. I’ve got lots of seasonal articles on the website, and you can find all my Halloween features here. Today I’m going to share a new mixed tenses exercise using...
Mixed Past Perfect Tense in Use Exercise
Continuing from last month, today I’ve got another gap-fill exercise to share, this time looking at the past perfect in use. Again, this is an exercise adapted from The English Tenses Exercise Book, where you can find many more. For the simple tenses exercise,...
Exercise: Mixed Past Continous Tense in Use
It’s been a while since I’ve shared any exercises, and as I’m a bit busy for the next few months I thought this would be a good time to do some lighter articles with material taken from the ELB books. So, today I’ve got a mixed past continuous...
What are Comma Splices (and how can you avoid them)?
A problem many native English writers and foreign English learners have in common is combining independent clauses without the appropriate punctuation or conjunctions, often seen with what we call comma splices. I thought this would be an interesting topic to cover,...Want to Master English?
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