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Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...

Hi everybody!Could you, please, check my grammar and vocabulary in the following sentences? Every now and then you will want to enjoy a whole chunk of baked meat. First, you should learn about making your meat soft and tender instead of dry and tough one. The top tip for a succulent baked ham is...

"In turn, standard spoken English is said to have its own 'grammar, vocabulary and idiom'. How do we know what is to be excluded from the standard vocabulary of spoken English? And how are its idioms to be decided on?"Bex, Watts. 1999

This is a classic case of a non-English speaker unfamiliar with the idioms of the English language. Of course, this is entirely not your fault because it is not your first language. Instead of correcting this letter, I suggest you improve on your overall usage of vocabulary in the English...

Yes, this also happens to me. I have been receiving notifications from Vocabulary and Idioms, Speech and Pronunciation, but never from General English Grammar.

There are some differences in vocabulary and idiom across the British Isles, and you might encounter some regional words and expressions that you're not familiar with. But the core vocabulary and grammar are not hugely different, and you might find that a bigger problem is pronunciation. If...

Barbara, Delmobile and anyone else who cares to comment,This probably isn't the best place to ask but this post and the responses bring up a question I've been wondering about. The dialog here is a perfect example of correct grammar and vocabulary but it contains several examples of what...

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual,...

.1) Air pollution irritates our respiratory systems or Air pollution irritates our respiratory system ? -- Both are OK. I'd use the former. 2) Could you tell me the idiom of which the meaning is: You are angry about something and you blame it on something else?-- I can think of no single...

1) Air pollution irrates our respiratory systems or Air pollution irrates our respiratory system ? 2) Could you tell me the idiom of which the meaning is: You are angry about something and you blame it on something else ? 3) The average number of the population of a nation (number)...