Past Perfect The Past Perfect tense is quite an easy tense to understand and to use. This tense talks about the “past in the past”. In this lesson we look at the structure and use of the Past Perfect tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding. How do we make the Past Perfect tense? The structure of the Past … Read more
Past Continuous The Past Continuous tense is an important tense in English. We use it to say what we were in the middle of doing at a particular moment in the past. In this lesson we look at the structure and the use of the Past Continuous tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding. Note that continuous tenses are also called progressive tenses. … Read more
Past Simple The Past Simple tense is sometimes called the “preterite tense”. We can use several tenses and forms to talk about the past, but the Past Simple tense is the one we use most often. In this lesson we look at the structure and use of the Past Simple tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding. How do … Read more
Present Perfect Continuous The Present Perfect Continuous uses two auxiliary verbs together with a main verb. In this lesson we look at the structure and use of the Present Perfect Continuous tense, as well as the use of for and since, followed by a quiz to check your understanding. Note that continuous tenses are also called progressive tenses. So the Present Perfect Continuous tense is sometimes called the Present Perfect … Read more
Present Perfect Tense The Present Perfect tense is a rather important tense in English, but it gives speakers of some languages a difficult time. That is because it uses concepts or ideas that do not exist in those languages. In fact, the structure of the Present Perfect is very simple. The problems come with the use of the tense. … Read more
Present Continuous Tense (also called Present Progressive) We often use the Present Continuous tense in English. It is very different from the Present Simple tense, both in structure and in use. How do we make the Present Continuous tense? The structure of the Present Continuous tense is: subject + auxiliary be + main verb conjugated in Present Simple am, are, … Read more
The Present Simple tense is the most basic tense in English and uses the base form of the verb (except for the verb be). The only change from the base is the addition of s for third person singular. How do we make the Present Simple tense? There are two basic structures for the Present Simple: 1. Positive sentences subject … Read more
AKAN A member of a people who live in Southern Ghana. Lullaby Someone would like to have you for her child but you are mine. Someone would like to rear you on a costly mat but you are mine. Someone would like to place you on a camel blanket but you are mine. I have … Read more
POET: MARJORIE OLUDHE MACGOYE She was born in England in 1928. She went to Kenya in 1954 and worked with the C.M.C Bookshop in Nairobi, where she got married. She is publisher’s representative in Nairobi. POEM: A freedom Song Atieno washes dishes, Atieno plucks the chicken, Atieno gets up early, beds her sacks down in … Read more
Did you know the names of babies of adult animals? “Look at that cute baby cat!” is not something you hear very often. There’s nothing technically wrong but English already offers a shorter, more familiar term for such; a kitten. The cub of each animal is named in different ways. Now let’s see the names … Read more