My English class

A typical mistake my students make: *You look well. *I feel well. The use of "well" in these sentences is incorrect because loo...

Today is the last day of the year and millions of people will be celebrating the arrival of the new year in many parts of the world. However...

Incredible but true! It's five years since I started this blog, and though I don't write entries as often as I used to, it's not...

Sometimes I hear people complain about the uselessness of learning Latin. "It's a dead language", they say, "Nobody speak...

According to the dictionary, a corner is "a point where two converging lines meet, forming an angle, either external or internal"....

Chocolate eggs are undoubtedly the most popular Easter food in Britain, but by no means the only one. Hot cross buns, roast lamb, Easter bis...

Apart from say and tell , there are other verbs that can introduce sentences in reported speech, as we saw in another blog entry . These re...