English Language Articles

Especially and specially sound similar and can easily be misused. They can be close in meaning but can also have distinctive meanings, so...

Everybody has and uses a phone these days. Have you ever wondered whether you should say on the phone or over the phone? If so, you are...

Home and house are probably among the first words you learned when you started studying English. They are important precisely because our...

  If you have attended English classes, the chances are you learnt the word if quite early on. Later, you may have learnt the word...

The English verbs speak and talk are very similar in meaning, so much so we could say that they are synonyms but they are used...

Bring and take are very common English verbs. They are often misused by learners of English. This is due to the fact that they have...

When someone is speaking, you also need to show that you are listening and interested in what they are saying. This is how you keep the conversation going.
An easy way to do so…

Remember to do, remember doing, forget to do, forget doing: remember and forget are English verbs that can be followed both by a verb ending in -ing (a gerund) or by the infinitive form of the verb. 
However, there is a difference in…

Because there is only one word for both shadow and shade in many languages, you may be wondering when you should use one or the other word in English.

Indeed, in…