My English class

It was November 2009 when I started writing this blog. At the beginning it was just an assignment for a course on Web 2.0 I was doing, but i...

Between , betwixt , among , amongst , amid , amidst are all prepositions and their meanings are  quite similar, that’s why students of Engl...

You must have heard in the news that the world population has reached 7 billion people these days. They even show images of a baby that, acc...

Compare these two sentences: “I have a new car”. “I have got a new car” Do they have the same meaning? Image in: http://www.imdb....

This summer I have spent a wonderful fortnight in Bedford, a beautiful market town north of London, by the river Great Ouse. It’s not very...

One of the things my students find incredible about the English language is that a figure like zero should have so many different names. ...