Everyday speech often hides small errors that pass unnoticed because they are widely used. One such example is the phrase commonly heard when people refer to treated water sold in plastic containers.

A common phrase. But the wrong version is more popular than the correct one. So, which do you normally say whenever you mean water sold in bottles that has, according to Cambridge Dictionary, been ...

There’s a special kind of power in beginnings. Before something is polished, proven or named, it exists in a “nascent” state. This word captures that in-between moment when possibility is present but ...

English grammar is traditionally divided into parts of speech. Here, we add an extra category, the expletive. Other categorisations of language structures enable us to describe the function of a word ...

Mastering English tenses is crucial for fluency, enabling precise communication of when actions occur. The English tense system organizes time into past, present, and future, each with simple, ...

The dictionary is gaslighting me. I know I sound crazy, but that’s just proof of gaslighting, right? Let me explain. For years I’ve been telling people that they never have to agonize over whether to ...

A handy list of links to resources for teaching verbs Stage 2: Saying what you do. Grammar Tip: 1st and 2nd person endings of regular verbs. Common irregular verbs: être, aller, faire, avoir. Stage 3: ...

一位听众来信询问如何判断在句子中应使用现在分词还是过去分词。英语中的分词分为以 -ing 结尾的现在分词和多以 -ed 结尾的过去分词。虽然在一些极为特殊的句子中，这两种分词可以互换使用，但在大多数情况下，它们在句中起到的作用是不同的。本期节目 ...