There are two very simple rules about word stress:
One word has only one stress. (One word cannot have two stresses. If you hear two stresses, you hear two words. Two stresses cannot be one word. It is true that there can be a "secondary" stress in some words. But a ...
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We use if-clauses in conditional sentences (If + condition = result). The below is an overview of the three basic conditional structures.
First conditional: If the weather is nice, I will go to the beach.
Second conditional: If I had time, I would go to the beach.
Third conditional: If I had had ...
Written by admin on November 1st, 2011
The ability to speak well can enhance your career, clinch a sale, sell a point of view and increase an executive’s productivity.
The most important objective of any speaker is to appear credible and knowledgeable about their subject. Speak to your audience as if you were having a conversation.
Grab the audience’s ...
Written by admin on September 26th, 2011
Learning how to pronounce past tense -ed verbs is not so difficult once you know the rules and have had a little practice.
To begin, it is important to first understand that there are 3 ways that we pronounce -ed ending verbs: 1) with a ‘t’ sound, 2) with a ‘d’ ...
Written by admin on September 21st, 2011
In today’s lesson, we will look at using though. There are three different ways we can use though: as a conjunction, as an adverb, and to mean ‘as if’ or ‘like’.
‘though’ as a conjunction
A conjunction is the part of the speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. ...