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We make the future tense with will + infinitive of the verb. Affirmative form I will meet you at five o’clock. You will stay home tomorrow. He will work all day on Monday. She will do the shopping on Monday. It will rain tomorrow. We will see each other tomorrow. They will go to France […]
Events up Until Now We use the past perfect continuous tense to talk about actions that started in the past, continued in the past and ended at a given point in the past. At that time, we had been living in London for two months. She hadn’t been studying much before the […]
The form for past perfect continuous is had been +verb-ing. Here are some example sentences in the affirmative, negative, question and question word forms. Hadn’t is the short form of had not. In the affirmative, the short form is I’d been, you’d been, he’d been, etc. If you would like to learn when to use […]
To review: past perfect tense = S+ had+ past participle of the verb. We use the past perfect simple tense when we are already talking about the past but we want talk about an even earlier past time. When I got to the station, the train had already left. While I was watching the film, […]
In the speaking section of the OET for nurses exam, you will be speaking to a patient. You are provided with a card with details of your patient, and you get three minutes to plan what you are going to say.. A partner is supplied for you to interview. You are provided with a card […]
Present perfect continuous is made with Subject + have/has been + verb-ing. Conjugation: I/you/we/they have been he/she/it has been Example sentences using affirmative, negative and question sentences are in the table below. To practise present perfect continuous tense click below. To find out when to use the present perfect continuous tense, please click here.
We don’t use the past perfect very often in English. But it is helpful if you can use and understand it. It is used to prevent misunderstandings about the past. We form the past perfect tense with had + the past participle of the verb. We use had with all subjects. I/you/he/she/it/we/they/ had eaten. […]
The reading section of the OET exam takes approximately 60 minutes. There are three parts to the sub-test and there are 42 questions to answer in total. Part A takes approximately fifteen minutes and parts B and C take 45 minutes combines. Part A Outline There are four texts in part A about the same […]
The OET listening subtest consists of three sections. It has a total of 42 questions and takes approximately 40 minutes. The topics are generic medical topics. (You are not assessed on your medical knowledge, just your English language knowledge.) Part A The first section consists of two extracts each about five minutes long. You must […]
