common errors in English
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Posted by Kerstin Johnson on March 06, 2014
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 the verb ask: The verb ask is never used with the preposition to. It […]
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Posted by Kerstin Johnson on February 27, 2014
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 other ways of saying money: cash coins or notes that can be […]
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Posted by Kerstin Johnson on February 20, 2014
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 the determiner few: Don’t use a singular noun or an uncountable noun after few. […]
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Posted by Kerstin Johnson on February 13, 2014
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 other ways of saying false: imitation made to look like something else, usually […]
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Posted by Kati Sule on February 06, 2014
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 the verbs accept and agree: Don’t confuse agree and accept. When you want […]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 30, 2014
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 other ways of saying hungry: peckish quite hungry: used especially to talk about […]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 23, 2014
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 the adjective responsible: Don’t use the preposition of after the adjective responsible. Use […]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 16, 2014
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 the noun research: Research is an uncountable noun, and so: ▪ it is […]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 09, 2014
Happy New Year! Our regular weekly post with language tips returns, bringing 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 the word more: The expression more and […]
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Posted by Kati Sule on December 19, 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 Christmas vocabulary. The word Christmas refers both to 25 December, celebrated by Christians […]
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