When you look in a mirror you see your own reflection, i.e. you see yourself. 'Yourself' is an example of a reflexive pronoun. Just as a mirror reflects your image, so does a reflexive pronoun reflect the subject pronoun!
Reflexive pronouns are used in two different ways:
Use a, an and the in the sentences below:
Lesson by Adele, EC Cape Town
An adjective is a word which give us more information about a nonun. Car is a noun, big is an adjective.
"That is a big car."
My is an adjective. In this sentence, It shows who the cars belong to.
"That is my car."
The Comparative
When comparing two objects or activities we often add -er to the adjective + “than”, e.g. higher than.
The Superlative
When comparing one with many the order is: the + adjective + -est, e.g. the highest.
Most / The Most
This one's for all you sporty people who need to brush up on your running jargon! Have a look at the vocabulary and match the words to their definitions...
1) Novice
2) Marathon
3) Hamstring
4) Warm-up
5) Treadmill
6) Peak Performance
7) Cramp
8) Quads / quadriceps
9) Dehydration
10) Endorphins
Today's lesson is from Amy Whiting, EC Cape Town English language school.
Present Simple is used to talk about routines and habits, it uses the form Subject + Verb
Example: We eat turkey at Christmas time
Have you ever been to New York?
More AWL (Academic Word List) Practice: The 'I's' have it! (This is a play on 'The ayes have it.' This latter expression means that the voice vote is in, and those in favor of a measure have won.)
So how was your weekend? What did you do? Did you do anything nice? Here's something I did over the weekend.
I went out for a meal with my cousins on Saturday night.
I have a large family and we don't see each other as much as we would like so we decided to all _1_ up.
These days we only seem see each other at weddings or funerals. An informal get together was long _2_.
It took a lot of planning to find an evening when we were all available, that's for sure.
