Rebecca: I'm Rebecca, I'm a tutor at Morley College at Beck, in Rotherhithe in South London and I work with adults of all ages who want to improve their literacy skills. When we talk about words, we ...

These goats like to "herd" their verbs into categories to keep them in order. Use your knowledge of doing, saying, sensing, thinking, feeling and relating verbs to choose the right herd for your verb ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

Imagine trying to speak without expressing possibility, permission,or necessity; it would be like painting without colour. That’s were the modal verb step in. These special helping verbs—can, could, ...

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' Callum and Catherine discuss four different types of phrasal verb.

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

Active voice keeps readers interested and engaged. You can use Microsoft Word features to find passive verbs, and even entire passive sentences, while you compose your documents. Configure the Word ...

It’s incredible how little we talk about grammar these days. The days of learning about the use of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs seem over. No mention of the lovely proposition either ...