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This is the same as 'He had had dinner before he went out.' When the actor of both clauses are the same (in this case 'he/he'), you can drop one of the pronouns and use the gerund directly after the linking word (in this case 'before') . If the actors are different, you must form two complete sentences, one with Past Perfect and one with Past Simple.
Your formulation of the question is perfectly correct. The formulation your friend has suggested is possible if we correct it to: 'For whom are the games made?' However, this alternative is very rarely used today and sounds like old or literary English.
You are a wonderful teacher! You have the ability to simplify things and present it in such a lucid way to all the English learners out there. I appreciate it.
This woman is amazing! her explanation are so clear and neat. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Your videos have helping me a lot, even if a native English speaker had been explaining I wouldn't have understood so well as with you. Thanks :)
It is a verb that forms questions or negatives in a specific tense. 'do' and 'does' are auxiliary verbs for the Present Simple Tense, 'did' for the Past Simple Tense etc.
The best explanation on how to form questions in English and mainly how to form questions with WH-words. Particularly, I was very confused on how to for questions with WH-words. This lesson helped me a lot. Thank you a lot and your channel gained another subscriber. Greetings from Brazil
One of my teaching techniques is to give students a sentence which they then have to transform into a) question b) negation. This has to be done orally to encourage a linguistic reflex, like a knee jerk. Even if they know the grammar they probably haven't developed this reflex. If they have the reflex they probably don't know the grammar behind it. So thanks again Minoo. This video has given me a lot of ideas to develop and improve this technique!!
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In American English, it is possible to say 'She just left.' In British English, the correct Tense is 'She has just left.' The abbreviation 'She's just left.' might make it hard to discern the Present Perfect while listening.
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Minoo,Iam very thankful to you for making the concepts in English Grammar very easy.Myself and my wife are preparing for competitive examinations and find these videos to be very useful. Thanks a lot again.!! I would humbly request you to upload some videos on prepositions usage and articles - which is bit confusing and a common thing in competitive examinations.
Parthiban Subramanian You're welcome. I'm glad my lessons have been useful to you. I am not sure when, but I do plan to publish lessons on articles, and possibly prepositions.
Palo Štec Thank you, Kamran. I'm glad you've enjoyed my lessons. The easiest place to find my lessons is on my website www.anglo-link.com under 'Video Lessons'.
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Durga Rao Thank you, Durga! There are more lessons like this on my channel. The easiest place to find all my lessons is on my website www.anglo-link.com under 'Video Lessons' and 'Exercises'.
Watch the same movie several times, first with English subtitles, then without. Ideally, choose movies with slow everyday dialogues rather than action or comedy.
Hello! Thank you for lessons but can you make the video about articles in english? When should use "a/an" and "the"? It will be very helpful for me and other people, who learn english, I think.
When the question is about the SUBJECT of your sentence, there is no inversion. This happens with 'who' and 'what' because they can ask about the SUBJECT or the OBJECT. For example: 'John spoke to Mary.' WHO SPOKE to Mary? John (the subject of the sentence). WHO DID John SPEAK to? Mary (the object of the sentence). 'The bus hit the tree.' WHAT HIT the tree? The bus (Subject). WHAT DID the bus HIT? The tree (Object).
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The correct questions is: WHO is this for? In the short question, where the preposition is right next to the verb, the correct form is 'whom': For WHOM?
In which lesson was it taught that the auxiliary 'will' takes priority over 'be' when moving the auxiliary to the front to make the question form? i.e. Sam will be back on Friday. Be Sam will back on Friday? (XXX) / Will Sam be back on Friday? When teaching students this formula, how do you avoid this confusion when all previous examples move the 'be' auxiliary to the front. What 'lesson' needs to precede this to timely address it?
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Who does he live with? >>> He lives with JOHN. (John is the 'object' of the sentence.) Who lives with him? >>> JOHN lives with him. (John is the 'subject' of the sentence.)
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Sergio Luis Agredo You're welcome, Sergio I'm glad my lessons are helping you. Scots have a very distinctive accent. Rest assured that with a little time you will get used to it. Keep listening to the accent on radio and TV in your free time to accelerate your familiarization.
I am afraid I cannot advise you on how to control your stammer, but I am sure you will find some useful information on the Internet. If you want to improve your writing skills, I recommend you do writing activities that can be found in exam preparation books like IELTS or FCE.
Hello Mino Fist I want to thank you for the great effort you put in your lessons , they rescued me many times when I got confused . second would you please make a lesson about ' INDIRECT QUESTION " and also about the subject and object question I have some trouble answering these type of questions third as you can see I don't know how to use PUNCTUATION and I'm sure that I made many mistakes writing this request to you. Thank for your time and wish you all success .
Hello Sami, I'm really glad that my lessons have been helpful to you. In reply to your requests: 1. I have already done a free video lesson on this topic. Look for 'Indirect Speech 2' on my RU-vid channel. 2. I have also got a complete lesson on punctuation, but this is a lesson exclusive to my online self-study course. I may do a YT version of it one day. In the meantime, feel free to explore my self-study course on anglo-link.com. As you will see, you can access all my exclusive video lessons by becoming a paying member, or you can access them individually by buying credits.
That would sound very old-fashioned. In modern English, once you have separated the preposition form the question word (or linking word), 'whom' changes to 'who'.
Thanks Minoo for answering my message. As I told you, you have no idea how much I appreciate it. This video answers my question. Many thanks and I am going to"bother" you with some other questions if I may of course. Regards.
No, you didn't get it wrong. In very informal contexts, the auxiliary may be dropped and intonation used. However, it is grammatically wrong and best avoided in formal or exam situations.
I would like to thank you so much. Such a creative teacher! I have a question. You gave an example about present perfect 'she has just left.' Is it right? I usually say, 'she just left.' Thanks in advance.
The 'wh' question word makes no difference to the structure. Formulate your 'yes/no' question with the correct auxiliary, and add the 'wh' question word to the beginning of the sentence.
If you put the verb 'have' or 'have to' in the Past Perfect Tense, you end up with 'had had': I had had breakfast before I left. If I had had to take a test, I would have failed.
+ana djazayri Thank you, Ana. You shouldn't use an auxiliary when the question is about the subject of the sentence. So, only 'Who knows the way?' is correct.
