An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjec

tive.

Adjective...

If you’re ready to move beyond fluency to perfect English you’re in the right place! Here you will learn the most important words in the English language, getting detailed analysis on each word’s use and pronunciation. As part of a...

Expletive constructions are phrases or sentences that begin with “There are,” “There is,” “It is,” “It was", "Here comes", etc. The verb “to be” is also part of many of these uninspired sentences. In this lesson, Mr. P. will give an easy...

Correlative conjunctions are words that work together and relate one sentence to another. Mr. P. will discuss many issues that students face when learning these conjunctions. At the end of the video, he will provide an exercise. This...

Writers use relative pronouns to make their writing more specific and less wordy. Let's practice using the relative pronouns "who" to refer to people and "that" to refer to things.

Learn French With Alexa’s “French Made Easy” series: Alexa takes a look at REFLEXIVE VERBS in French.

In this lesson, Mr. P./Marc will delve into apposition. What are appositives? Appositives are words or groups of words that give further information about the subject (a noun or pronoun). They actually describe or identify the subject...

Today you learn if it’s a good idea to use all capital letters on your IELTS Exam.

Today you’ll learn 3 strategies for eliminated repeating vocabulary in your Speaking and Writing answers.

Today you’ll learn the correct grammar structures for ‘advice’ verbs to use on IELTS.

In order to watch this lesson, one must be able to understand which auxiliary to use with which tense. Marc will explain how to agree or disagree with positive and negative statements. Students often use the two-word expression "me...

This is Part 2 of my introduction to phrasal verbs. (With bloopers and my cat!)

In this lesson I explain the two different types of phrasal verbs: separable and insepar

able.

An explanation of phrasal verbs! Even if you...

In this English lesson, I am going to show you how to talk about plans and predictions.

This video is about question tags. Mainly used in informal contexts. Question tags are interrogative fragments, either positive or negative, placed at the end of a statement. Mr. P./Marc will list 4 different rules when using them. He...

This video is about Confusing words in English: #all, #every and #each. All is used when you are thinking of a collection as a whole rather than its individual items. Every is used to refer to each individual item. We use each of (not...

What is the difference between say, tell, speak and talk?

Knowing when and how to use these verbs can be very confusing because they have such similar meanings! In this video we will carefully look at how to use say, tell, speak and...

This standards-based ELD lesson for beginner English learners focuses on applying knowledge of familiar language resources for referring in order to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text); Applying...

In this video I answer a few questions I have had in the comments of other videos. These questions are great questions, but can't be answered in a comment and making a video about just one of them would be too short. In this...

This lesson teaches an introduction to the alphabet and the sounds and names of the letters, consonants and vowels. We look at personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, the) and the verb “to be,” "I am" "you are" "he is." We also look...

This video is a teacher-led lesson on the importance of ensuring pronouns clearly refer to their antecedents in writing. The teacher provides examples and exercises for students to practice identifying and revising ambiguous pronouns,...

In this lesson, we will learn about the perfect progressive tense, also known as the perfect continuous te

nse.

In previous lessons, we’ve learned that the PROGRESSIVE TENSE, also called the CONTINUOUS TENSE...

Subject-verb agreement is for the most part fairly straight forward, but can be tricky when you have compound subjects joined by nor and or, collective nouns, indefinite pronouns, singular nouns that end in s, the pronoun none, inverted...

Roger the pronoun tricks Nelson to take his place in line.

This video covers the use of contractions and singular possessive pronouns. It explains the concept of contractions, how to recognize them in reading, and how to use them in writing. It also covers singular possessive pronouns and...