Happy New Year 2019!

  May 2019 bring joy, peace and some magic to your life!   To start this new year, I would like to share this quote by Christopher McCandless, the young American traveler who was the subject of “Into the Wild”:   “The joy of life comes from our encounters with...

English possessive adjectives

  If you own –i.e. possess– something and want to say it, you can use a possessive adjective.   What is an adjective and what is more specifically a possessive adjective? An adjective is a describing word that is used to describe a noun. For instance, if you...

A quote by Paul Valery: “Translating is… ”

  Paul Valery (1871-1945) was a French author, philosopher, poet, essayist whose fields of interest were extremely broad. Translation was one of them. He deeply admired Edgar Allan Poe, and had not Charles Baudelaire already translated his works, Paul Valery...

English prepositions of time: at, in, on

  A preposition is a word, usually a short one, that is used to link different words or parts of a sentence. To talk about time, schedules, routine, we need prepositions of time. The main prepositions of time are at, in and on. Let’s see how to choose the...

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