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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the modal verb expressions MUST BE and CAN’T BE in English. We use them to discuss probability, how sure we feel about something. Let’s find out more… Imagine you are trying to solve a crime, like a detective. Think of Sherlock Holmes or even Batman! A detective needs to find clues, evidence, inf...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between the modal verbs HAVE TO and DON’T HAVE TO. We use them to say if something is important or not. Let’s find out more… Here’s an example. If you arrange a party and it’s very important that people come to the party on time, you can say “You HAVE TO come on time” or “You MUST come...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between HAVE TO and MUST in English. They are both very common modal verbs that we use to express obligation. But is there a difference? And what is the difference? Let’s find out… Let’s start with a simple example. You can say “I HAVE TO do my homework” or you can say “I MUST do my ho...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on using the modal verbs MUST, SHOULD and OUGHT TO with the present perfect. We use them together to talk about something we thought would happen but didn’t. This will be easier to understand if we look at an example together. If you’re waiting for someone, but they still haven’t arrived, you might fee...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn how to use modal verbs with the bare infinitive in English. This means we’re going to focus on how we use modal verbs followed by another verb in a sentence. Firstly, what is a modal verb? Well, it is a type of auxiliary verb, a helping verb, which expresses some form of modality, such as ability, perm...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on the expression HAVE something DONE in English. This is a very common expression but it is often confusing for English students. It has a passive meaning and it means that someone does something for us, either because we can’t do it or we don’t know how to do it. Let’s find out more… Let’s start with...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at active and passive voice in English. This is a very important grammatical structure in English. We use it for different reasons, such as changing the focus of the sentence. Let’s look at some examples… Here’s a simple example: “The cat ATE the mouse”, active, “The mouse WAS EATEN by the cat”, passive...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about linking verbs and how we use them in a sentence. These verbs do not describe an action. They are used to describe a state, a feeling or a result. Let’s look at some examples… The most common example of a linking verb is BE. For example, I AM a teacher, you ARE a student. In these examples, the ve...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at reflexive verbs in English. What is a reflexive verb? This is a verb where the action has an effect on the person doing it. Let’s see some examples together… One of the most common reflexive verbs is ENJOY. You can ENJOY SOMETHING, for example, you can ENJOY A PARTY or ENJOY A MOVIE, but you can also...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and in the last lesson we talked about using the verb WISH to talk about unreal situations in the present. Things that we would like to change now, but we can’t. In this lesson, we’re going to look at the difference between a wish in the present and a wish in the past. What’s the difference? How does the sentence change? Let’s use t...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on the verb WISH to talk about things we would like to be different but we cannot change. Why can we not change them? Well, either we don’t have the power to change them or they happened in the past, so it’s too late to change them! Let’s start with a simple example: I WISH I WERE taller. I WISH I WERE...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to talk about your plans using the verb THINK. How do you describe the things you might do in the future? Well, a very simple way to talk about your future is to say: I’M THINKING OF, I’M THINKING OF. So, use the verb THINK in the continuous form, which is BE plus the verb with ING followed by the preposition O...

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM . Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between LIKE DOING and LIKE TO DO. This often causes students lots of problems because the meaning changes between the two, but it’s not always obvious what the difference is. Don’t worry, in this lesson I’ll make it very clear for you. Let’s look at some examples to help us understand...

Hi everyone, I’m Dan and this is ANGLOPOD , a podcast and website to help you improve your English: https://www.anglopod.com/ Today we’re going to learn how to use the verb REMEMBER and how the meaning can change depending on the form of the next verb we use after it. So what’s the difference between REMEMBER TO DO and REMEMBER DOING? Let’s try an example sentence to see how we use them: You could...

Hi everyone, I’m Dan, and this is ANGLOPOD , a podcast and website to help you improve your English: https://www.anglopod.com Today we’re going to learn how to use the verb TRY and how the meaning changes depending on the form of the next verb we use after it. So what’s the difference between TRY TO DO and TRY DOING? Let’s look at an example sentence to see how we use them: You could say:  TRY TO...