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Changing from Active to Passive Voice using just the auxiliary verbs.
Hi All! Please give me your opinion about the following method of transforming sentences from Active voice to Passive voice. The method...
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Direct Indirect speech.
This blog looks at direct and indirect speech.
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More about the past perfect
About a week ago I joined a question session on grammar discussing the past perfect.
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Problems with tenses
As I said, in writing my first assignment for the Open University I had problems with tenses.
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Some of the bees in my bonnet
I promised to let some of my professional beliefs fly around for you to shoot at.
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  • Some of the bees in my bonnet

    Here are half a dozen rather disconnected thoughts to start with (more in the next blog). I'll be interested to know how far you agree or disagree, and why.1 We should beware of anything called 'The … method' or 'The … approach'. This may well...

  • Direct Indirect speech.

                                                      DIRECT- INDIRECT SPEECH Look at the following two sentences: John said, “I am unwell now”. -   Sentence [1]. John said that he was unwell then. - Sentence [2]. Sentence [1] is said to be in Direct...

  • Changing from Active to Passive Voice using just the auxiliary verbs.

      Voice refers to the verb in a sentence. A sentence is said to be in Active voice if the subject does some action, as in: [1] John kicks the football. The subject ` John` acts. He `kicks` the football. A sentence is said to be in Passive voice if...

  • Problems with tenses

  • More about the past perfect

    teachingenglish.org.uk/talk/questions/past-perfect.