Direct and Indirect Objects: Give Someone Something or Give Something to Someone?
Understand two-object verb patterns and when English needs to or for before the recipient.
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Understand two-object verb patterns and when English needs to or for before the recipient.
Read lessonDistinguish self-directed actions, emphasis, independent action, and mutual relationships.
Read lessonForm question tags accurately and understand how intonation changes a tag from a real question into a request for confirmation.
Read lessonLearn why natural adjective sequences follow a typical order and how to avoid heavy, unnatural noun phrases.
Read lessonBuild accurate possessive structures for people, organisations, time expressions, objects, and independent possessive pronouns.
Read lessonUse there is/are to introduce existence and it is to identify, describe, or refer back to something already known.
Read lessonLearn how countability changes articles, quantifiers, verb agreement, and even the meaning of common English nouns.
Read lessonUse -one, -body and -thing compounds naturally in positive sentences, negatives, questions and offers.
Read lessonPlace common adverbs naturally by understanding what they modify instead of memorising one fixed position.
Read lessonBuild a clear spatial system for describing where things are and how people or objects move from one place to another.
Read lessonDescribe activities in progress at a future time and achievements completed before a future deadline.
Read lessonUse wish, if only and would rather accurately for present dissatisfaction, past regret and preferences about other people’s actions.
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