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Want to get that job? Improve your image? Sound more professional? Learn how to transform simple English words to business English vocabulary and watch your career take off! I’ll show you how to change “get” to “receive”, ” make sure” to “ensure”, “give more information” to “elaborate”, and more. These small vocabulary changes will make a huge difference in your English level.
Most verbs have past tense and past participle in –ed ( worked, played, listened). But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular:
| Base form | Past Simple | Past participle |
|---|---|---|
| be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say see sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write |
was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said saw sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote |
been begun broken brought bought built chosen come cost cut done drawn driven eaten felt found got given gone had heard held kept known left led let lain lost made meant met paid put run said seen sold sent set sat spoken spent stood taken taught told thought understood worn won written |
How do we use present simple and present continuous?
The “TH” sound in English is difficult to pronounce for some people. In this video AJ teaches two ways to pronounce TH and teaches you exactly how to do it.
In the video AJ mentions 2 ‘th’ sounds. The soft sound we use to say ‘thank you’ and the buzzy sound we use to say ‘there’
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