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by Alan Townend English Grammar through Stories Present simple tense or «It never gets you anywhere» Table of Contents Pr ...

by Alan Townend 1. Present simple tense or «It never gets you anywhere» Table of Contents anywhere» In this story you will find ...

by Alan Townend «It never gets you anywhere» Andrew Smodley is a natural worrier. It is something he has inherited from his fath ...

by Alan Townend Everyone in the pub looks suitably depressed at this remark and begins to think of all the price increases that ...

by Alan Townend 2. Present continuous or «What a performance!» One of the features of the English language is that there are two ...

by Alan Townend comedy. The play opens in a park. A couple are sitting on a bench and they are having an argument. He is trying ...

by Alan Townend 3. Future tense or «Jealousy»................................................. There is a common belief that the ...

by Alan Townend Below you can see a story I've written using some highlighted examples of how you can express the future. «Jealo ...

by Alan Townend 4. Articles in English or «Charlie the Brave» Now in this story you will see many different uses of the articles ...

by Alan Townend ƒ Before names of meals except when preceded by an adjective. «We had a late breakfast and decided to miss lunch ...

by Alan Townend «Charlie the Brave» Charlie is a teacher and his wife, Maria is an artist. One of the main differences between t ...

by Alan Townend 5. Progressive forms or «Going, going, gone!»........................ In this story you will see many examples o ...

by Alan Townend money but at the same time there is a little voice at the back of peoples' minds that is suggesting to them that ...

by Alan Townend through the door, she couldn't believe it was him. He looked about 20 years younger. Apparently he had been pers ...

by Alan Townend 6. Passive voice or «Haunted» In this story you will see many examples of how the Passive Voice can be used. Her ...

by Alan Townend I had just finished at university and had a couple of weeks holiday before I started my first full-time job when ...

by Alan Townend 7. Relative pronoun The story I am about to tell you contains lots of examples of the «Relative Pronoun». Before ...

by Alan Townend Sentence Relative Compare: «He showed me a photo that upset me.» «He tore up the photo, which upset me.» Relati ...

by Alan Townend was expecting a visitor, who was due any minute, she opened the door to the garden and threw out the rug that wa ...

by Alan Townend away but unfortunately she had fallen asleep, missed the station she wanted and didn't wake up until the train c ...