Deciding which of these two words, further or farther, one must use in a sentence is quite easy to do.  Further and farther crop up quite a bit in everyday spoken English.  Most people do not [...]

Capital letters are used in written English in the situations which are discussed below. Lower case letters must be used in all other instances. Capital Letters: Rules and Usage When are capital [...]

Abbreviations and contractions of words both serve to shorten a word, but while abbreviations omit the last few letters of the word, contractions omit letters in the middle of the word. [...]

Finding new  words to use is a really fun part of learning a new language. Words define a person, and interesting words engage your listeners.  Here are 60 interesting words to use – all [...]

Prepositions appear most often in phrases which contain an adjective, a noun or pronoun, with the noun or pronoun being the object of the preposition. Over the hill After the [...]

Ending a sentence with a preposition is considered a kind of word crime.  In matters of style, ending a sentence with a preposition tends to make the sentence look and sound awkward. For example: [...]

Collective nouns are really one of the most fun, strange and interesting parts of the English language.  There are some that all of us – native speakers and new English speakers – say all [...]

Choosing to use that or which when they are part of an adjective clause is decided by a fairly simple rule, which if you do not know, can lead to a whole lot of confusion.  You use that before a [...]

Like and as in some contexts can mean the same or similar, but in other contexts, like and as give the sentence very different meanings. To learn how to use the words, like and as, correctly, we [...]

We have all heard about the double negative – they are popular in music lyrics and as slang expressions.  The meaning is understood, but the meaning is not based on proper grammatical rules and [...]