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Guide to Reported Speech
Reported Speech
Guide to learning and teaching reported speech for students and teachers. This guide includes a brief description and links.
Reported Speech Activities
Taking Important Tests
It's important to prepare well for big tests - especially for exams like the TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge First Certificate (FCE). This guide will help you take steps towards doing your very best on the big day.
Specific Tests
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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension
Monday November 17, 2008
This holiday feature includes a Thanksgiving reading comprehension with difficult vocabulary explanations about the history of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving followed by a Thanksgiving reading comprehension quiz.
Parallelism - Parallel Structure
Wednesday November 12, 2008
Hoping to help you and wanting to provide excellent learning resources, I've put up this new page! This introductory sentence is a perfect example of a parallelism (a participial phrase parallelism to be exact). Not all parallel structures are this complicated, but they can be tricky.
Tense Review Charts
Monday November 10, 2008
This overview chart shows the positive, negative and interrogative (question) forms of all the principal tenses in English with a brief description of the principal usage.
The timeline tenses chart provides a handy visual reference sheet to English tenses and their relationship to the past, present and future. Included you will find active, passive, simple and continuous forms positioned according to their occurrence in time.
Once your feel comfortable with your tenses, try these tense review quizzes:
25 Essential English Lessons
Friday November 7, 2008
Basic English lessons for beginning English learners. Use this basic English essentials gallery as a great way to study the basics in one easy to use area of the site. Each English lesson provides basic information and is followed by a short quiz to test your understanding. Click on "Return to Basic English Essentials" and continue learning.
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