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List of Useful Action Verbs Having a rich stock o f  action verbs  is usually the first step to write good sentences. Make sure you know all the verbs up there before making headway to better writing skill.

Applying the vocabulary we learn is very important. Such exercise may not be perfect in granting your learners a clear context. But it is really helpful to train sentence structure with the use of some regular phrases or words.

Seen a post in which a teacher found the use of exclamation mark confusing  thus the birth of this entry. The following info is extracted from Gordon Jarvie's book so that I suppose no one should doubt the credibility of the explanation provided.  Happy learning to all my fellow teachers. The exclamation mark is used to signal an exclamation, or emphatic utterance and often suggests strong emotion. Sometimes, it implies a sentence that is not to be taken seriously. The utterances maybe complete or incomplete, single words or long sentences, as in: Heavens above! Not on your life! Encore! Encore! How dare you say a thing like that to me! What an ass! How lovely she looked! Hail, Caesar! Help! Look out! Two tendencies are to be avoided here. One is the gushing tendency - the addition of exclamation marks to ordinary statements, perhaps with the intention of artificially brightening up one's writing, as in : It was lovely to see you all last week! You