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Discharge is a verb and a noun. Discharge (verb) to allow somebody to leave hospital. Once somebody has recovered from and illness, they are discharged home. Mr X will be discharged home tomorrow. We will discharge Ms J back into the care of her nursing home in two days. He was discharged from hospital two […]
Admit and admission are commonly used words in nursing. To admit somebody means to let them in. In nursing terms, it means to take somebody into hospital for treatment. It’s a verb. We will admit Mr Jones to the ward for monitoring. The patient was admitted to the cardiac ward last Monday. Admission is a […]
Some words look remarkably the same when you glance at them. When you look more closely, you notice they are actually spelt differently, and they mean different things. These mistakes are common in the OET exam. Learn how to avoid them. Confusing complaint and compliant Compliant is an adjective. It means that somebody is cooperative and […]
We use the Past continuous tense to say that something was happening at a particular past time. What were you doing at two o’clock this morning? I was sleeping at two o’clock this morning. When I left for work this morning, it was raining. With past simple tense. We often use the past continuous tense […]
We make the past continuous with subject + was/were + verb+ing. Here is the positive structure. Here is the negative structure. Here is the question form. We can also put a question word at the top of the sentence to create a new question. Where was I living (last year)? What was he playing? Why […]
We use the present perfect simple tense to talk about an finished action that still affects the present. There’s. no mention of time. I’ve lost my keys. (So I can’t drive) I’ve bought a new puppy. (now I have a puppy to look after.) We’ve run out of milk. We also use present perfect to […]
Most regular verbs get ‘ed’ added to the end to create the simple past tense. Some regular verbs get a spelling change before we add the ‘ed’ to the end. The table below explains some spelling changes when you change a word to the simple past tense. The table mentions stress in a word. Word […]
Explanations In the positive sentence, the subject comes first, (I, you, he, she, it etc) then the auxiliary verb, (am, is, are) followed by the verb + ing. ( working, running, talking etc.) In the negative sentences, we put the word not after the auxiliary verb. (am not, are not is not.) In the questions […]
Signal Words for Present Tenses The table below is a list of the common words that are used with each present tense in English. They are known as signal words or trigger words. See the table below to work out what tense you are reading. You can also use it to work out which words […]
We use certain prepositions when we are talking about time. Which preposition we use depends on what part of time we are talking about. The prepositions of time are ‘in’, ‘on’, and ‘at’. Some expressions of time don’t need any preposition. At at five o’clock at 6.30 am at 9.00 p.m at night, at lunchtime […]
