Ah - Thank you Petra! You've raised an excellent point. From Dictionary.com "hom·o·phone (hŏm'ə-fōn', hō'mə-) Pronunciation Key BOF_HEAD > n. EOF_HEAD > BOF_DEF > One of two or more words, such as night and

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

Different people have different opinions on this, so you pays your money and you takes your choice I guess. Here are a few (randomly Googled) definitions that agree with my position: Yes, of course. I wasn't even saying you were wrong. I just

Just some quick comments: 1) It is obvious you can't tell which language is the most difficult to learn, because it's a subjective thing. "Difficult" means you are not able to do it well, but someone else might have no problems.

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

. pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect ? Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A noun Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation. I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because

Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?

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

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When I attended school in the late Middle Ages, I never wondered whether I was taught British or American English. I suppose I was taught both: differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. I find it strange that anyone would like to