Present continuous and 'going to' The zero and first conditionals Modals of deduction and speculation The past perfect Adjectives and adverbs The third conditional Linking devices: cause and effect ...

English speakers often use the past simple and past continuous together to say that something happened in the middle of something else. In this episode of The Flatmates, Alice says: '.when I arrived ...

We use the past simple for something that happened and finished in the past. We use it when we say or know the time when something happened. It is often used in stories, when one thing happened after ...

Present continuous and 'going to' Verb patterns The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’ The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Comparatives and superlatives The present perfect with 'just', ...