Reporting Verbs 2: Choosing The Best Verbs

 

We have gone on over reporting verbs and reported speech in the past in Business English: Reporting Verbs  and Business English: Reported Speech. You can also look at our post on using adverbs and and linking words for storytelling here.  Today, we're doing something different.

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Adverbs & Linking Words | Storytelling & Conversation

 

It has been an extraordinarily long time since our last post. So, we're sure you're pleasantly surprised to see this one on adverbs  for storytelling and general conversation😆.

CELPIP - Part 2: Speaking

In the second part of our CELPIP series, we'll look at ways to prepare for the speaking part of the test.

Storytelling: Past Continuous vs Past Simple

 Today's post will show you the basic grammar commonly used for telling stories. Storytelling skills are very useful even in business situations where you may have to write reports or explain actions.

Let's look at the two-panel comic below.

Match the correct sentence to the first two panels of the comic.


1/ Yan read a book when the phone rang.

 
2/ Yan was reading a book when the phone rang.

 Click on "read more" to see the answer.