Everyday grammar – to hear ‘of’ or to hear ‘about’
Discussing the important distinction between to ‘hear of’ something and to hear ‘about’ something.
This is how we say it – ‘to ‘pass’ time or to ‘spend’ time?
In a recent conversation, a student told me that she had ‘passed’ her holidays in Corsica. To a native English speaker, this sounds incorrect. To find out why, read my blog…
Everyday grammar – to ‘expect’ or to ‘wait for’
Why do we sometimes say in English ‘to expect’ and sometimes ‘to wait for’? In this blog I explore the differences in meaning between these two closely related verbs.
Everyday grammar – ‘may’ and ‘might’
Looking at when you can say ‘may’ and ‘might’
Everyday grammar – The differences between ‘must’ and ‘have to’
Talking about the differences between the expressions ‘must’ and ‘have to’, ‘mustn’t’ and ‘don’t have to’.
This is how we say it – ‘Much’, ‘Many’, ‘A lot of’ and ‘Lots of’
Talking about the differences between ‘ much’, ‘many’, ‘a lot of’, and ‘lots of’, and when to use them.
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