common errors in English
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 24, 2012
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with the noun knowledge. Knowledge is an uncountable noun, so it is never used [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 18, 2012
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with the verb marry. Don’t use the preposition with after get married or be [...]
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Posted by Stephen Bullon on January 16, 2012
The weekly roundup on Friday carries a link to a story about the renaming of a well-known chain of British bookstores. It’s Farewell to Waterstones’s and Hello to Waterstones. Losing an apostrophe won’t make any difference to the pronunciation, but nonetheless the name change has been greeted with some outrage by some of the more [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 11, 2012
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with key words which are used for talking or writing about jobs. general job: [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 05, 2012
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with used to. Don’t confuse ▪ I am used to doing something ▪ I [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on December 27, 2011
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with the verb make. When make means ‘to cause or force someone to do [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on December 20, 2011
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with the word who. Don’t confuse who’s (the short form of ‘who is’ or [...]
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Posted by Stephen Bullon on December 13, 2011
It’s the Plain English Awards season again, as Stan Carey noted in his recent post, and across the country winners are basking in the glory of an award or ruing their luck in being singled out as exemplars of gobbledygook. One of the recipients of a “Golden Bull Award” (for the year’s ‘best’ examples of [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on December 13, 2011
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with the noun trouble. Trouble is mostly used as an uncountable noun, so: ▪ [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on July 21, 2011
A new report on the potential of solar energy, by leading business consultants Ernst & Young, tells us (p.11) that ‘increased efficiency of manufacturing and improvements in non poly silicon costs has lead to cost reductions overall’ Aaargh: the old lead vs. led problem: they sound the same (in some meanings, at least) but the [...]
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