All things English
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 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 […]
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Gerunds and to + Infinitives Gerunds and To + Infinitives. Gerunds or to + infinitive with other verbs? That is the question. In this post, we will find out when to use these special versions of verbs. Gerunds are verbs with -ing at the end of them. e.g. running, jumping and cooking. We need to […]
Nouns are an important building block of a sentence. There can sometimes be more than one noun in a sentence. A noun is a person, place or thing you can touch and name. It can also be something more abstract, like ideas. For example, I’ve got pain in my leg. You can’t see pain or […]
Phonemes. Phonemes are the sounds made by each letter of a word. In English, each letter is not always pronounced the same way in every word. e.g., rat, rate, wasp and awe. The ‘a’ in each word is not pronounced the same. That is why we need the phonemic alphabet in English. […]
