common errors in English
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 09, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip gives advice on the number thousand: After a number, or after several or a few, use [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 03, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip gives advice on the noun news: Although the word news has an -s on the end, [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 25, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip gives advice on the verb stop: When you want to say that someone is no longer [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 18, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip includes common synonyms for the verb change: alter: a more formal word for ‘change’ His election [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 12, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip helps with key vocabulary used for talking about likes and dislikes. Other ways of saying [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on March 28, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week, we look at some Easter vocabulary. Easter is a movable feast. The term itself describes a Sunday [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on March 19, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners often find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week we focus on American English, and today’s post highlights some key differences between American and British English [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on March 13, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners often find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week some advice about the adjective related: After the adjective related, use the preposition to (not ‘with’): ✗ [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on March 12, 2013
A story in last week’s Observer newspaper included the sentence: “She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey”. This would not go down well with Grammar Girl, whose numerous posts on questions of usage includes one explaining the difference between who and whom. She repeats the standard “rule” that: You [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on March 07, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners often find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week some advice about bit: The expressions a bit and a little bit, when used before an adjective [...]
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