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Action Verb Expressions

These quizzes focus on using action verbs used in specific expressions that are both idiomatic and standard expressions.

Verb Expressions
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Vocabulary You Need for Your Industry

Friday May 25, 2012

If you use English at work there are many terms and phrases that you will need for specific tasks. These core vocabulary sheets offer 150 - 150 key words and phrases used in specific industries all on one page. Use these as a starting point for building essential vocabulary for work.

English for Advertising
English for Banking and Stocks
English for Book Keeping and Financial Administration
English for Business and Commercial Letters
English for Human Resources
English for the Insurance Industry
English for Legal Purposes
English for Logistics
English for Marketing
English for Production and Manufacturing
English for Sales and Acquisitions

Changing Just a Word

Tuesday May 22, 2012

Paraphrasing sentences by using synonymous words, phrases and constructions is a great way to improve your writing and grammar skills. One type of exercise is to change the sentence with one key word provided. Take the word and complete the sentence with no more than five words.  Another type of exercise is to complete the sentence with a change provided.

Verb Conjugation

Wednesday May 16, 2012

Verb conjugations follow distinct patterns in English whether the conjugation occurs in the present, past or future. Learning these verb conjugation patterns can help understand the logical of tenses in English. Another helpful way of learning tense conjugation in English is to use visual tense charts. You can find resources for each of the major tenses in English to find detailed explanations, as well as quizzes and lesson plans focusing on the specific tense.

Guides to Grammar

Monday May 14, 2012

Here on the site there are a wide variety of resources for major grammar points including explanations, exercise sheets, quizzes, and lessons. To help use these resources, there are a number of guides to grammar that provide basic grammar explanations, as well as pointing to appropriate worksheets, quizzes and lessons to further study the resources.

Guide to Present Tenses
Guide to Past Simple and Past Continuous
Guide to Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous
Guide to Future with Will and Going To
Guide to Comparative and Superlative
Guide to Reported Speech
Guide to Conditional Forms

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