A street is a road with houses on either side. We use street for roads in towns, but not for country roads.

• Cars can park on both sides of our street

 
Roads used for both town and country.

• Cars can park on both sides of our road
  
• There's a narrow winding road from our village to the next one. (NOT . . . a narrow winding street . . .).
  

Note that, in street names, we stress the word Road, but the word before Street.

• Marylebone' Road.    
  
• 'Oxford Street.

After explain, we use to before an indirect object.

• I explained my problem to her (NOT / explained her my problem.)
  
• Can you explain (to me) how to get to your house? (NOT Can you explain me . . .?)

A past tense does not always have a past meaning. In some kinds of sentence we use verbs like I had, you went or I was wondering to talk about the present or future.

After if.

• If I had the money now I'd buy a car.
• If you caught the ten o'clock train tomorrow you could be in Edinburgh by supper-time.

Long is most common in questions and negative sentences, and after too and so.

• How long did you wait?    
• I didn 't play for long.
• The concert was too long.

In affirmative sentences, we usually use a long time.

• I waited (for) a long time (I waited long is possible, but not usual.)
  
• It takes a long time to get to her house.

Much, many and far are also more common in questions and negative sentences.

We often use way ( = method) in expressions without a preposition.

• You're doing it (in) the wrong way
• You put in the cassette this way
• Do it any way you like.

In relative structures, we often use the way that . . .

• I don't like the way (that) you 're doing it.

After way, we can use an infinitive structure or of . . . -ing. There is no important difference between the two structures.

• There's no way to prove Iof proving that he was stealing.

• Don't confuse in the way and on the way.

If something is in the way, it stops you getting where you want to go.

• Please don't stand in the kitchen door — you're in the way.
• On the way means 'during the journey' or 'coming'.
• We'll have lunch on the way. Spring is on the way

A play is a piece of literature written for the theatre or television.

• Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's early plays.
  

A game is, for example, chess, football, or bridge.

• Chess is a very slow game. (NOT . . . a very slow play.)

Verbs: people act in plays or films, and play games.

• My daughter is acting in her school play. 
• Have you ever played rugby football?

Enough comes after adjectives (without nouns) and adverbs.
adjective/adverb + enough

• Is it warm enough for you? (NOT . . . enough warm . . .)
• You're not driving fast enough
  

Enough comes before nouns.
enough (+ adjective) + noun

• Have you got enough milk? (NOT . .. enough of milk.)
• There isn 't enough blue paint left.
  

We use enough of before pronouns and determiners (for example the, my, this).
enough of + pronoun We didn't buy enough of them
enough of + determiner (+ adjective) + noun

• The exam was bad. I couldn't answer enough of the questions.
• Have we got enough of those new potatoes?

We can use an infinitive structure after enough.
... enough... + infinitive

• She's old enough to do what she wants.
  
• I haven't got enough money to buy a car.

.. . enough... + for+ object + infinitive

• It's late enough for us to stop work.

We do not use the present progressive to talk about 'general time'. For this, we use the simple present. Compare:

• My sister's living at home for the moment, (around now) You live in North London, don't you? (general time)
  
• Why is that girl standing on the table? Chetford Castle stands on a hill outside the town.
  
• The leaves are going brown.
  
• I go to the mountains about twice a year.
  

We often use the present progressive to talk about the future.

• What are you doing tomorrow evening?

Some verbs are not used in progressive forms.

• I like this wine. (NOT I'm liking . . .)

Verbs that refer to physical feelings (for example feel, hurt, ache) can be used in the simple present or present progressive without much difference of meaning.

• How do you feel? OR How are you feeling?

• My head aches OR My head is aching

We always use the before same.

• Give me the same again, please. (NOT Give mo seme again, please.)
• I want the same shirt as my friend's. (NOT / want a same shirt like my friend.)
  

We use the same as before a noun or pronoun.

• Her hair's the same colour as her mother's. (NOT . . .  the same colour like her mother's.)
  
• We use the same that before a clause.
  
• That's the same man that asked me for money yesterday.

We can use musno say that we are sure about something (because it is logically necessary).

• If A is bigger than B, and В is bigger than C, then A must be bigger than С
  
• Mary keeps crying. She must have some problem.
  
• There's the doorbell. It must be Roger.
  
• 'I'm in love.' 'That must be nice.'