Could anybody tell when should I double the last letter and when I should double the last letter Hi, I hope you'll like the following excerpt from AskOxford . (When it comes to English grammar, beware of general rules ... more often than not

Hello, everybody! I'm a student of English who needs your help with some idioms in order to analyse them for my graduation paper. The topic of my research is synonymy among idiomatic expressions. For the purpose of this research I have

That article at that link you posted mentions three ways of dealing with "spoken grammar". The second one is actually the approach I was taking: one single grammar. This is what is said in that article, and what I have been saying

Hi Yizhivika, I agree with you on all counts! As for the difficulty (as I wrote in the other post) these exercise are meant for students who are sitting for the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) . This exam is made up of five

Having regard to the heading of this thread, I take the professor's comments to be made in a context where he is discussing "Englishes" and not literary criticism. I think they are highly pertinent. One the one hand, it is perfectly

Hi Taka: For the many nit-picking rules of grammar, it's best to check out a more authoritative site than just an informal discussion group. For collective nouns, indeed, there is a divergence in British English and American English. They say

Well there's a big problem here ... which grammar rules? :D :D :D There is no strict code in English of RULES, three textbooks can give three completely different "rules" for the same point of grammar, the "rules" taught in

A "stoop" is a momentary action, for a specific purpose (usually, to pick something up off the floor). You don't oftent think about your abilty to stoop, but you might think about your ability to bend. Yes, they are the same

"I would kill myself today if I didn't believe that tyranny and injustice must end." Is the last sentence correct too? Yes. Your grammar book must be very old. Some elderly British people may still use should instead of would in

Small and little are both adjectives. We use small to talk about the size of something. Your cat is very small . Can I have two small pizzas please? We can use little to refer to size, but we usually use it with another adjective to express an