Annette teaches us how to respond when someone asks for our assistance. We learn the best ways to say “yes” when agreeing to help out, and how to refuse politely when we need to “let someone down easy.”

Annette discusses how we might ask for help in various formal situations, in which we may be talking to someone we don’t know very well, an authority figure, or a total stranger.

Here's a simple list of common, everyday adjectives in their positive, comparative and superlative forms, divided into groups to facilitate memorization.

Annette explains how to ask for help, or for someone to lend a hand, in different contexts. She teaches us the best phrases for everyday situations, and how to soften our language to keep requests polite and casual.

Sigrid looks at how the comparative and superlative forms of one- and two-syllable adjectives are created.

Adjectives are an important part of speech. They give us additional information about nouns. Let's look at how they work in English.

This video is about indefinite answers to the question words "where" and "how." We combine these question words with "some" and "any" to form new indefinite words, such as "somewhere," "somehow," "anywhere," "anyhow," and "anyway."

We use question words plus words like "some" and "any" to form new indefinite words, such as "sometime," "sometimes," and "anytime." This video is about question words "who," "what," and "when."

These three words are so similar, but so different! Check out this lesson, too.

Sigrid packs her carry-on bag for the flight to Paris. She talks about what she needs to pack, and why.

Sigrid uses the question words "who," "what," "when," "where," "why," and "how" as she thinks out loud about her next vacation. Where will she go? How will she get there? How much will it cost?

In this video, Austin shows budding guitarists an exercise to increase the accuracy and dexterity of their fingers as they move across the guitar frets. The chords appear relatively simple, but Austin assures us that it’s not as easy as he makes it look!

There's one more important question word to learn: "how." Sigrid provides plenty of examples of questions with "how," both by itself and together with an adjective or adverb.

Sigrid, here as Rita and Kathy, has fun practicing the 5 question words ("who," "what," "where," "when," and "why") on a train. She makes quite a nuisance of herself, too. More about the 5 W's in: Parts of Speech: Question Words - Part 1 of 3.

We often use question words to ask questions. The five main ones start with "wh." Sigrid explains how they work.