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Dear Tutors, In my English grammar book it says the verb “remember” is a nonprogressive verb. Then why should I say “But now, I'm remembering that when I was at school, the teachers wanted us to use the British English” instead of saying “But now, I remember that when I was at school, the...

Anonymous wrote: Hi , I wonder if you can answer my question - I recently wrote an English test and part of the test was a Cloze passage where you fill in the missing word . A point was taken off for the following sentence "Edison's Inventions made people's lives more ______ " . I would like...

Could we also say: "Favourite" in British English; "favorite" in American English?

Like + doing or like + to do? Is there a difference between them. I know people who use the former and other people who employ the latter. The only difference I have found in a British English grammar is that one says “I like playing soccer” when one enjoys it, but that one says “I like to go...

From Merriam Webster's: AIN'T Etymology: contraction of are not 1 : am not : are not : is not 2 : have not : has not 3 : do not : does not : did not -- used in some varieties of Black English Usage: Although widely disapproved as nonstandard and more common in the habitual speech of the less...

The problem with English is that what is considered correct grammar in American English may not be ok in British English and vice-versa. In Philippine English, "officemate" is a synonym of "colleague" or "coworker" but it's not even listed in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. British: I...

Mirapence, your help is just priceless!!! I'm really sorry for having given you so much labour; I defiinitely overdid. I am, however, very thankful for your explanation. After this "injection of knowledge" you gave me, I decided go on phrases and hope to get through them with your help. I...

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is misleading in a simplified grammar like...

I'm wondering about the usage of "shall" instead of "will" when expressing a future event. In school, I actually only learned the form "will" to be used whenever I want to say something about an action or situation that will happen in the future. While I was reading some more books about...