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When you say that English morphology is simple, I assume you are referring to the comparative lack of grammatical inflection. English employs a wide range of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. So, while English is highly analytic, it is by no means totally isolating, though it has isolating...

Hi Mister Micawber, Here was my friends original use of the word: Thanks for the article about Russia and the fairly non-informative email. To which I replied with some light-hearted taunting: ...Also, the proper antonym of informative is uninformative. If we venture too willy-nilly...

How To Learn English ? PART 2 Learning a language is mainly based upon self-struggle. Maybe the only thing to be done by the teachers on this subject is to advise a method. Because, in a sense, language cannot be taught but learned. So, it’s suitable that the students are shown ways to...

Chaoss, if you look at Webster's Collegiate (the printed dictionary I happen to use), for example, you'll see that it does not have entries for all words having common prefixes. There is simply not space to accommodate all of them, so it merely includes lists of the more common words under...

1. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad" while "worst" is the superlative. bad-worse-the worst His new movie is worse than his last. Your cooking is getting worse! (compared to before) Among his movies, the newest one is the worst. This is the worst of all! 2. I'm reproducing Taiwandave's post...

There have been a number of recent questions concerning when to use hypens. The following is an excerpt from The Economist magazine's style guide. © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004 Use hyphens for: 1. FRACTIONS (whether nouns or adjectives): two-thirds, four-fifths, one-sixth, etc. 2....

"A deluded human who practices devination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts, or other manifestations related to the following animate or inanimate objects and appearances:birds, oracles, Bible, ghosts, crystal gazing, shadows, air appearancesbirth stars, meteors, winds,...

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school student and if the teacher was marking hard, then...