Future Conditional

 "I will update my ESL blog when I have more time", I promised a group of students. That day has arrived. We'll take a look at the future conditional and other future time clauses.

Business English | Passive Verbs & The Hiring Process

At last, a post on passive verbs has finally been written. It was pointed out to me, by one of my students,  that this blog didn't have a post on passives. So, that mistake will be corrected today😆.

PRESENT SIMPLE vs PRESENT CONTINUOUS | What's The Difference?

A typical week: Luanne often naps at her desk. Once or twice a week, she wakes up after six o'clock, and has to rush back home. Every two weeks, she goes to the office on Saturdays to do extra work. Luanne works too much.

Zero Infinitives | No Gerunds

Marvel Comics/George Perez

Don't worry. This isn't my comic book blog. This post is all about ZERO INFINITIVES (a follow up to the  Gerund or Infinitive post in March).

Phrasal Verbs | GET

You will get past having to learn phrasal verbs in an ESL course😆.

Adjective Order

Adjectives are the most fascinating, varied, words in the English language😆! Today's post is how to put how to order adjectives.

Prefixes | The Basics

I did a disservice by not covering prefixes after I did a post on suffixes. I'll make up for that now.

Prepositions: IN | ON | AT

This post is about the difference  between in, on, and at.

Phrasal Verbs: Go

Time for a look at phrasal verbs with ↑.

What's The Difference? JUST vs ONLY

Welcome to another edition of What's The Difference? where we explain words that are often confused and misused.

Fluency MC: Star ESL Rap Artist & Teacher

As you know, I like to talk up my fellow ESL teachers on social media, especially YouTube. Today's post is on .Jason R Levine: Fluency MC!

What's The Difference? AFFECT vs EFFECT

Affect and Effect: two of the most commonly confused words in English. The intended effect of this post is to affect a positive change in your use of these two misunderstood words😆!

What's The Difference? RISE vs RAISE

Today (in this short, short post) we look at the two of the most similar verbs in the English language: rise and raise.

Conditionals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd

If you have ever wondered how to use if and the second conditional, you would start reading this post right now. If you read this post, you'll also learn about the first conditional. I wouldn't have started writing this post, if I had written about the third conditional earlier😆!

Everything vs Anything - What's The Difference?

Today's post answers one of the many questions that many ESL learners have asked me.

What's the difference between everything and anything?

Idioms & Phrasal Verbs - What's The Difference?

We're back with more phrasal verbs, but, this time, we're adding idioms to the mix😆!

Phrasal Verbs: Put

 I'm not putting you on when I tell you that learning phrasal verbs is essential for ESL learners. Today's post will focus on phrasal verbs using "put".

All/Most/Many/Some/Few: Quantifiers

Today's post will be about quantifiers like all, most, many, some, few, very few, hardly, etc.

CAN vs BE ABLE TO

I hope I can show you how to to use can and  be able to with this post.

Review: Past Tenses

Back in February, we looked at different verb tenses. Today, we'll focus on past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple, and past perfect continuous.