HI Thomas, Thanks for sharig your thoughts. I don't think neither of us (Marvin and I) dispute the importance of garmmar, you made a generalization that seems to allude that we don't observe (or at least try to) the general rules of

A few points might be worth considering: 1. Most native English speakers have no idea whether they are using appositive nominative phrases, or adverbial clauses of time. 2. If there were no rules, no conventions about how words fit together, there

It's wrong, right?? Right. It's wrong. But it's one of those mistakes that you'll have to learn to overlook when others make it. Otherwise you'll go crazy! It's one of the most common errors in English made by native

What sorts of radios/sort of radio do you want to see? (Not sort of radios OR sorts of radio ) ( Right Word Wrong Word by L. G. Alexander) Right Word Wrong Word has been compiled with reference to the Longman Learners' Corpus and has

Heck no, this is a term I learned from CJ and Marius. "Educated" people speak with very precisely correct (higher register) English. "Uneducated" people tend to use the vernacular and make many common errors, speaking in

He isn't rather slender these days, is he? He doesn't look rather slender these days, does he? "Rather" (in this sense of "somewhat") is not normally used with negative statements, so the above sentences are

You're right about Every day. Thanks for the answer, Yoong Liat. This is a very common error made by students and even teachers in my country. The reason is that if you cannot find 'every day' in most dictionaries;

Hi, Hey. Can you please tell me how should I know which form to use. Here is an example Once I (spend)__ the whole day in the jungle. I always want to use "had spent", because I'm given the time in the sentece. But the right

Is there any general guideline on using "in" or "on" in this context? I have noticed that was my most common error. Thank you.

Anonymous wrote: Hi, I usually edit some of the stuff my coworkers write around here, I believe I have good knowledge of what I'm doing but now I doubt it because of a document I'm reading right now... This is how it reads (in many