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My sister is a doctor.
The verb in this sentence, is, is a different from the other two that we’ve just looked at. Like the transitive verbs, this verb [...]

My father cried.
We can see in this sentence that there is no word after cried. In other words, there is no object for the word, so there is no [...]

My sister broke the window.
In the first sentence, the word that comes after the verb, window, is the object of the verb broke. We say [...]

Zero Conditional: certainty
We use the so-called zero conditional when the result of the condition is always true, like a scientific fact.
Take some ice. Put it in a saucepan. Heat the saucepan. What happens? The ice melts (it becomes water). You would be surprised if it did not.

IF
condition
result

present simple
present simple

If
you heat ice
it melts.

Notice that we are [...]

Third Conditional: no possibility
The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why there is no possibility for this condition. The third conditional is also like a dream, but with no [...]

Second Conditional: unreal possibility or dream
The second conditional is like the first conditional. We are still thinking about the future. We are thinking about a particular condition in the future, and the result of this condition. But there is not a real possibility that this condition will happen. For example, you do not have a [...]

First Conditional: real possibility
We are talking about the future. We are thinking about a particular condition or situation in the future, and the result of this condition. There is a real possibility that this condition will happen. For example, it is morning. You are at home. You plan to play tennis this afternoon. But there [...]

My mind has been beset by a question for a great many years. Indeed when I studied English at university, I once made a mistake which was not really explained to me by our teacher.
The sentence we had to translate was the following: il était un peu ivrogne = he was something of a drunkard.
If [...]

There are two things worth knowing about the use of the pronoun ‘whom’. Firstly, in modern English usage it’s considered rather formal and old-fashioned, although it does still sometimes appear in academic and official forms of writing. ‘Who’ is the modern equivalent that can be used either formally or informally and in spoken and written [...]

I have doubts about two words which are commonly used. They are ‘I’ and ‘me’. Can you tell me when I should use ‘I’ and when I should use ‘me’?
Well this question about the difference between ‘I’ and ‘me’ is a really good one, because you know, speakers of English as a first language are [...]