What Are Countable and Uncountable Nouns?
When discussing grammar, nouns can be described as either countable or uncountable. I’ve been meaning to cover this for a while, as we’ve got a few articles relating to these definitions but not one that defines them, and describes what to look out for. After some...
Combing Different Tenses 3: The Present Simple
A while ago, I began a series of articles to show how each tense can be combined with the other tenses, but we only covered the past tenses (with the past simple and continuous here and the past perfects here). The idea was to demonstrate how a single aspect can...
What are homonyms, heterographs and heteronyms?
I had an idea to discuss contronyms this month, which are a specific type of homonym, but I realised I don’t have an article on homonyms here. These are an interesting (and difficult) aspect of English, where we have a great many words that can either look or sound...
Grammar of the Future in the Past
I’ve had a few queries lately asking for more information about using the future tenses in the past. This is used when we want to talk about events yet to occur but from a past perspective. This is a topic that was actually added to the later versions of The...Want to Master English?
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