Grammar

Nothin’ don’t tell the blues like bad grammar. Now I ain’t gonna say that no one don’t know like me, ‘cause they do. Don’t they? If it ain’t gonna do you no good, it’s the blues. Didn’t John Lee tell us right. My baby she gone, she been gone two night I ain’t seen my baby…

I love the Grammar Police The Grammar Police are ever vigilant and frightfully quick on the draw whenever the tiniest of grammatical error, or erroneous spelling mistake hits the ether of the Internet. So fast are they, that I have to say that I may forget about doing the tedious proofreading of my blog posts from…

The English Phrasal Verb English has one of the coolest and at the same time most mysterious of verbs. Verbs to me are the motors that drive phrases and sentences. Normally, as in most languages, these verbs are one word. But in English, we have the special and totally cool phrasal verb. Sometimes now called…

European English in everyday use “I am called Sylvie, and we are three in our family, and during two weeks we have been in Spain taking a wonderful holiday. We were very interested to see the bull fighting and we had a lovely weather all the time we were there. I am the only child…

What do you know about the perfect tense? While all languages have their positive attributes, be it structure, rhythm, sound or lexis, English has one of the most unique tenses. It is one that we tend to forget all about when we are writing. In some manner it does exist in some other languages, but…

How well can you use the gerund? One of the most used, but misunderstood points of grammar is the gerund. Although it is something that, as writers, we use naturally, and without thinking, a little understanding of its use can improve one’s writing considerably. Especially in forming interesting sentence forms that avoid overuse of the…