Home » Intermediate English » Rule: Use enough followed by a noun(s) + infinitive in order to express the maximum completion of a specific action. Enough states that the speaker has done all of the action and cannot do anymore, or chooses …
Home » Intermediate English » They sing too loudly to hear anyone else. Rule: Use too followed by an adjective/adverb + infinitive in order to express the exaggeration of an action. Examples: 1. It is too windy to drive. 2. They talk too loudly …
Home » Intermediate English » Rule: Use be followed by an adjective + an infinitive in order to describe their emotion towards a direct action. Examples: 1. He is glad to be done. 2. They were good to go. 3. She was quick to act. …
Home » Intermediate English » Rule: Use an adjective followed by an infinitive in order to express the way they feel about a certain action. Examples: 1. She is quick to move. 2. Seth is slow to learn. 3. She is scarred to go alone. …
He wanted his friend to move faster. Rule: Use a verb followed by a noun + infinitive when a person/animal wants another person/animal to do a specific action. *Note: a pronoun can come before the noun. Examples: 1. The teacher wanted her students to …
Home » Intermediate English » Rule: Use an infinitive after a verb when a speaker is performing an action, and the speaker wants or needs to perform another action immediately after the first action. Examples: 1. She wants to go to a …
Home » Intermediate English » He is happy to rake leaves. Definition: Infinitives are the to form of the verb. *Note: you can also use an infinitive as the subject, the complement, or the object of a sentence. The infinitive form of …
Home » Intermediate English » He is scared of skiing. Definition: A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding “ing.“ The gerund form of the verb read is reading. You can use a gerund as the subject, the complement, or the …
Home » Intermediate English » He is learning in flight school. Rules: Expressions of place with progressive tenses describes where the action is happening. A verb using present, past or future progressive will always be followed by a statement of place. Examples: The man is …
Home » Intermediate English » The progressive tense is used when there is an action in progress during a certain time. The action starts before, takes place during, and continues after a different time or action. Rules: Present progressive describes an action that has …
The perfect progressive tenses say that an event is happening immediately before, up to, until another time or event. The tenses are used to express the length of time of the first event. Rules: Present perfect progressive states the length of time an …
Home » Intermediate English » The perfect tenses all give the idea that a specific time or event happens before another specific time or event. Rules: Present perfect states a certain time or event has happened in the past and the time …