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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Present Perfect Continuous ( Finally!)

I've been writing this ESL blog since September 2015, but haven't done a post on the present perfect continuous until today😆. 

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😆.

Past Simple & Present Perfect | Good Together

Wayne: Have you been to many countries, Gavin?

Gavin: Yes I have. I went to Italy and Morocco last year. How about you?

Wayne: Not really. I've been to the United States several times on business, though.

Gavin: My brother drove down to Vermont two months ago, but I have never travelled in the US.

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😆!

Tenses: Time Lines & Examples

A graphic on past, present, and future tenses. Pictures can make language and grammar very clear, especially when we're talking about time. 

Please study the timelines and examples below.

Passive Verbs & Explaining Processes

Today we're going to look at passive verbs, (or passive voice) for example:

Coffee is grown in countries like Ethiopia and Brazil. 

Why not use, "Countries like Ethiopia and Brazil grow coffee"? 

Answer: coffee is the main topic. So, "coffee" the first word in the sentences even though (grammatically) it is the object of a sentence.

Please read on to learn how about the function and grammar of passive verbs.