Yesterday evening, I went to the supermarket. I bought lots of delicious food and I spent a lot of money. When I arrived home at eight o'clock, I made a tasty supper and ate it all myself! Yum yum! We ...

I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...

A lot of adults gave up on grammar long ago. They didn’t learn as much as they would have liked in school. Now there’s too much too learn. Amid a sea of gibberish about sentence-ending prepositions, ...

Woman in red cardigan: People do get their tenses of a verb confused. Making sure that the verb is in the same tense all the way through a document or a letter or an email. If you read it to yourself ...

Sometimes you know a word has two forms, but you 're not sure which one is appropriate to use in the situation at hand. This happens a lot with verbs, where past-tense forms can compete for acceptance ...

Present continuous and 'going to' Verb patterns The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’ The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Comparatives and superlatives The present perfect with 'just', ...