by Martin Burke | Jan 27, 2020 | Everyday grammar
When teaching recently, one of my students was talking about persuading English-speaking potential clients to start to use her company’s services. She said; “I will tell them that there are few advantages in using us…” In other words, she had suggested that there were...
by Martin Burke | Jan 26, 2020 | This is how we say it
I recently had an exchange of messages with one of my students, in which I said “I do hope that you get better soon.” She was unsure why I would use the auxiliary verb “do” in this sentence, because English learners are taught that we use “do” in the Present Simple...
by Martin Burke | Jan 16, 2020 | Everyday grammar
Learners of English are often confused about how to structure questions in English. It can seem like a complicated challenge at first. In the case of most other languages, you can ask a question by making a statement and raising the tone of the voice at the end of the...
by Martin Burke | Jan 16, 2020 | This is how we say it
I’ve noticed quite a number of my (otherwise linguistically competent) learners of English making the following (admittedly not very serious) mistake when translating the French word ‘après’. In fact, it’s not really a mistake as such, but another example of something...
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