By Antonyms, Grammar

Thank you, Grammar Geek, Of course you are right with 158'000, I got the same result, but must have mixed up some numbers when writing. But the bottom line remains the same nevertheless.

I think Communicative approach has a relation with other methods. When I began to learn English, my teacher used to explain vocabulary and grammar from a text, then we mimick her to read it. Before teaching, she had an introduction which was very interesting. She had a good accent of a speaker of...

Hi Mister Micawber, Here was my friends original use of the word: Thanks for the article about Russia and the fairly non-informative email. To which I replied with some light-hearted taunting: ...Also, the proper antonym of informative is uninformative. If we venture too willy-nilly...

Ant_222 wrote:«By the way, as a matter of philosophy, I'd say love and indifference are better opposites than love and hate». Love — indifference Hate — indifference Something — the lack of the something I don't think so... I do think that love — hatred is a pair of antonyms, don't know why...

How To Learn English ? PART 2 Learning a language is mainly based upon self-struggle. Maybe the only thing to be done by the teachers on this subject is to advise a method. Because, in a sense, language cannot be taught but learned. So, it’s suitable that the students are shown ways to...

Hello KM again I've never heard such a grammar rule that monosyllabic adjectives can't go with 'less'. But it would be plausible some native speakers tend to refrain uses of that kind of constructs because they know there is a rule that monosyllabic adjectives can't go with 'more'. Few uses of...

Hi Jeff, this question is truly wonderful as it tests both your vocabulary and grammar The key to solving it is to read the question very very carefully. It gives to clues , Firstly the gramatically clue nevertheless. The adverbial phrase "nevertheless" is used to join two clauses with a...

Thank you very much for your quick responses, with your answers, another question comes out: Are the following sentences correct in grammar? The WW II resulted in the global regressions of economy. It was generally considered as a period of regression. The subsequent phenomenon reflects...

Hello Guest I think you are right. Those people might think the antonym of "on purpose" should be "on accident". As for the grammar of "by accident", I haven't much to say. It is a translation of French "par accident" or Latin "per accidens", and has been used as an English colloation since 14...