by Yolaine Bodin | 25 Feb 2017 | English Language
The difference between might and may is not always obvious for learners of English. We can say that might and may are modal verbs, that initially might is the past form of may, but all the grammar will not necessarily help as all you really need to know is the...
by Yolaine Bodin | 16 Feb 2017 | English-French Vocabulary
In English, when you want to talk about anybody or everybody without discrimination, you can use this idiom: any old Tom, Dick and Harry. They are three old, classic names. The same names are also used individually in more English phrases but if you use the...
by Yolaine Bodin | 2 Feb 2017 | French Language
You may think that fonds is just the plural form of fond and you’d be right, it can be the case! However, fonds, with its final s, is also the correct spelling of a word in the singular form. That can be quite confusing for fond and fonds are homonyms:...
by Yolaine Bodin | 13 Jan 2017 | English Language
Good news! There is an easy way in English to form a compound adjective, i.e. an adjective made of two –sometimes three– words. You have probably already seen some and there are different types of words that can be used to make a compound adjective but here,...
by Yolaine Bodin | 5 Jan 2017 | French Language
Here we are, at the beginning of the New Year! In France, January is the month where people will wish you a Happy New Year and you may hear the French ask: Avez-vous bien commencé l’année ? But you won’t hear: Avez-vous bien débuté l’année ?...
