Monthly Archive for: "April, 2018"

For international students for whom English is not their native language, university placement means a Conditional Acceptance at a university, the condition being that you will achieve [...]

When learning English as a second language, speaking is one skill that you feel the need to perfect. Some great ways to learn how to speak properly is by testing yourself through spoken English [...]

International students often underestimate the amount of time required to research an academic institution that suits them in terms of course program, costs, lifestyle preferences, etc. Then, [...]

The semicolon is a feared form of English language punctuation; I think all the fears are misplaced.  Semicolons are used when a comma isn’t enough, and a period is just a bit too much. When Do [...]

I tell you, less vs fewer just seems to be one of those grammar-related mistakes that get under people’s skin!  Go ahead and google it, and you’ll find impassioned grammarians bemoaning the “10 [...]

The rules regarding title capitalization vary depending on which style guide you use—or are expected to follow.  Let’s talk about the common ground the more popular guides share. Capitalize the [...]

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic, historic and important events in American history: the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr with MLK50, a “Remembrance [...]

How do you use between, among, and amongst correctly in English sentences? Let’s start with the definitions. There are lots of ways ‘between’ is used in the English language however when talking [...]

Comparisons are ways to say that a noun—person, place or thing—has more or less of a particular quality.  In the English language, there are 3 degrees of comparison, the ‘positive’, the [...]

The word ‘nor‘ creates a certain unease about how to use it.  Does it replace ‘or’?  Is it used to mean something more specific?   I always think that learning how to use [...]