By Contractions, Phrasal verbs

Hi K.,I spent a whole year in the UK, doing a postgraduate course. To make things worse, I chose to go to Wales because Cardiff Uni is at the cutting edge in my field. Have you ever heard somebody speaking with a Welsh accent? For the first two months there, I only wanted to cry... In spite of my...

Hiya YC,It sure feels good that a native shows interest in how we perceive english... Let me try to understand the best I can... Specific elements of language posing problem :I'm comfortable with tenses and conjugation. I find myself sometimes troubled with vocabulary and spelling ; whenever...

It's no surprise that the use of "up" as the second component of phrasal verbs seems chaotic. There are something like 30 to 40 different kinds of verbal concepts that take "up" as a complementary particle. I've never attempted to classify them all, but here are some examples. Note how some...