Sorry to hear about your less than positive results concerning your written English! You are correct that reading a book about English grammar is definitely difficult to do and especially to ..enjoy! My advice as a professional ESL American

Thanks, Bender. First of all, let me post the following grammar explanaiton about 'determiner': "Determiners GRAMMAR A determiner is a word used in front of a noun to indicate whether you are referring to a specific

Hey guys, Here's a list of commonly mispronounced words in English. Very interesting and useful, in my opinion. Enjoy! Feel free to post any other ones that you've come across. A No: acrossed | Yes: across It is easy to confuse "across" with

Probably just a matter of viewpoint. Since the article is correct, the noun must be countable; Yes indeed, a matter of viewpoint. This seems to be a case of viewing countability differently. I learned in school to call "countable" those

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Hi, yes, I'd say that "rule" applies to most nouns. It's a general one. Poor countries... (When talking about poor countries in general) The poor countries... (When referring to some specific poor countries, or when emphazising

Hi! I'm a green hand in teaching ESL. I wonder how do teachers in English speaking countries comment on writing. For some great articles, would it be proper to comment "Well organized" ? Can you suggest more comments for nice

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So, when talking about modelling hydrodynamics, we would use "a hydrodynamic model"? Yes. our answer has lead me to another question: is it "...indefinite articles which should...", or "...indefinite articles that