Tense is a very important aspect of English grammar. It is central to an inspiring handling of the language. I hope you will agree with me that the errors that cause the worst embarrassment are among ...

English tenses represent one of the most fundamental aspects of achieving fluency in the language. These grammatical structures enable speakers to convey precise temporal relationships, indicating ...

Writers, over the last decade, have been waxing lyrical about the rise of the present tense in English fiction. But this morning I read something entirely new – for me, at least. I read a manuscript ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Why has Phil been doing lots of washing this week? Neil and Beth tell us what they've been up to recently, and our grammar guru Georgie teaches us ...

Abdul Weli from Somalia writes: I would like to know more about the passive. Most reference books say that the present perfect continuous tense has no passive form. Yet, at the same time, we have seen ...