When you start to learn Cantonese, you will notice that there are many English loanwords like bus (巴士: baa1 si), taxi (的士: dik1 si6), cheese…
What is an adjective? Adjectives, which is one of the parts of speech, are words that used to describe nouns or pronouns. Adjectives give information…
What is a noun? A noun is a word that represents a person, animal, plant, place, thing, or idea. It can be either singular or…
What is simple future tense? Simple future tense is used to indicate things or actions that have not happened yet. As long as the time…
Knowing how to tell the time in the correct way will make you look like a native when you are visiting an English-speaking country. Recommended…
Pronouns are used to replace nouns or noun phrases in a sentence. They are used to refer a person, a thing, a group of people,…
What is simple past tense? Simple past tense is a verb tense that indicates a completed action that happened in the past. The past is…
There are a lot of words that we can use to express quantity in English, such as much, many, a lot of, plenty of, a…
One of the characteristics of English complete sentences is the requirement of a subject. However, if the subject is not available in the sentence, ‘there…
Demonstrative words – this, that, these, those – are words that show which person or thing is being referred to. There are two types of…
After the verb to be, ‘the verb to have’ ranks as the second most commonly used verb in English. The verb to have in English can…
Do you know that the concept of the verb come and go in Japanese and English are different? Not only that, the usage of come…
The verb to be is probably one of the most irregular verbs in English. It does need more attention as we use the verb to…
Simple present tense is one of the commonly used verb tense in English. What is simple present tense? Simple present tense is a verb…
The articles ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’, are important words that we use in almost every sentence in English. Articles are words that modify a noun.…
Comparative Adjectives We use comparative adjectives to compare two objects. It is used to describe an object that has a higher degree of quality than…
After learning numbers in Chinese, French, and Japanese, you will learn about English numbers today! In fact, English numbers are easy yet tricky. Let’s get…
The answer is ‘no’. Just because they are both used for introducing relative clauses does not mean that they have the same usage. The…
An idiom is a phrase or a group of words that has a metaphorical meaning. Next time, use these idioms to make you sound more…
High and tall, are used to describe vertical distance and length. These two words seem like synonyms, but they are not really the same.…
