Do you always get confused between in, on, and at? You’re not alone! In this lesson, Claire breaks down English prepositions step by step with clear examples that are easy to remember. You’ll learn ...
To connect to or connect with? On television or in television? To admit someone to hospital or to admit someone in hospital? What is the difference between ‘old for his years’ and ‘old in years’?
Winston Churchill famously rubbished this grammatical convention by demonstrating the tortuous English which could result - "This is the sort of thing up with which I will not put." Simon Blake, ...
Today I am bringing you another of my occasional lessons in our ongoing educational series, "English as a Third, Fourth or Fifth Language". This time round, we are going to look at the way the English ...
De is also used in phrases with verbs like finir de, refuser de, décider de... It is usually followed by an infinitive. For example: ...
AN English teacher in Iran, Farhad H., recently sent me e-mail asking this very interesting question about preposition usage: “I often have difficulty when it comes to the difference between the ...
In our six-part discussion of the various ways of showing the six basic logical relationships, we focused on the two major classes of connectives that perform that function: the conjunctions and the ...