English Grammar Secrets

We use the past perfect continuous to look back at a situation in progress. It was a good time to invest. Inflation had been falling for several months.  Before I…Continue readingBusiness English Grammar Past Perfect Continuous

We can use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past. I left school when I was sixteen. I was very happy then.…Continue readingBusiness English Grammar Past Review 1

We can use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past. I left school when I was sixteen. I was very happy then.…Continue readingBusiness English Grammar Past Review 2

There is no one ‘future tense’ in English. There are 4 future forms. The one which is used most often in spoken English is ‘going to’, not ‘will’. We use…Continue readingBusiness English Grammar Going to

Some people have been taught that ‘will’ is ‘the future’ in English. This is not correct. Sometimes when we talk about the future we cannot use ‘will’. Sometimes when we…Continue readingBusiness English Grammar Will Future

We can use ‘will be doing’ to talk about something that will be in progress at a particular moment in the future. This time next week, I’ll be sitting on…Continue readingBusiness English Grammar Will be doing

When we want to talk about future facts or things we believe to be true about the future, we use ‘will’. The President will serve for four years. The boss…Continue readingEnglish Grammar Lessons – Will or Going to