Woman in red cardigan: People do get their tenses of a verb confused. Making sure that the verb is in the same tense all the way through a document or a letter or an email. If you read it to yourself ...

There are some verbs that we don’t usually use in the continuous form. They are often verbs linked to the senses and thinking, for example: hear, see, smell, hate, know, understand, believe, want, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The influence of the mother tongue (L1) in the acquisition of second languages has been detected in various areas of language. One of these ...