For our followers on Instagram and Facebook, here’s another opportunity to compare your answers from our last grammar challenge to the correct answers posted here. Make sure to read through the explanations and if you have any questions at all, feel free to ask us. Let’s get down to business! 🙂
Here are the answers:
- My friend felt incredibly ill on her wedding day and the next/following day she felt fine.
- I received a postcard from my aunt.
- Some people are allergic to nuts.
- We flew to London.
Let’s delve deeper:
1. We use tomorrow if we are talking about an event in the future. In the example above, both actions take place in the past. Therefore ‘tomorrow’ becomes ‘the next day’ or ‘the following day‘ when used in the past tense. This is important to remember when telling a story that took place in the past, in order to avoid confusion with tenses!
2. Verb and preposition collocations can be tricky to remember in English! We recommend that you make a note of the combinations that you find difficult to recall and re-write them in example sentences. Make sure to read them out-loud too so that it really sinks in! When we use the verb ‘receive’, we usually receive something from someone. For example – I received some awful news from my aunt. The preposition ‘from’ comes before the person or organisation.
3. Allergic is an adjective and therefore it needs the verb ‘to be’ before it. We have noticed that students sometimes forget to add the verb ‘to be’ before adjectives in this kind of sentence structure.
4. When talking about direction and movement, the proposition ‘to’ is best suited. Especially when it comes to verbs that are focused on travel, it is always best to use the preposition ‘to’, for instance: ‘He travels to France fairly regularly.’
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