Tag Archives for: "English Grammar"

Once the basic elements of English grammar are more or less understood, the focus of the English language learner typically turns to acquiring  vocabulary words . Vocabulary is a big part of [...]

In the internet age, any attempt to learn English the way it is actually spoken includes learning vocabulary words  that have been created purely because we are in a new digitized age, where we [...]

What are prepositions in English grammar?   The word “preposition” comes from the Latin word praeponere (put before.)  Prepositions show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and other [...]

The word the is the most frequently used word in the English language. You may think that the size of these words— a, an, and the – 3 letters at most—make them bit part players when it comes to [...]

A complete sentence is made up of sentence fragments.  By themselves, sentence fragments do not express complete thoughts, as they are missing important information that goes toward making the [...]

These common English grammar mistakes are made by both native speakers and English language learners.  As a non-native speaker, you may well have seen signage, heard English news presenters or [...]

Common English grammar mistakes that native Japanese speakers face when learning English as a second language are typically of several different kinds. Some of those errors arise from the [...]

Learning English as a second language presents all sorts of challenges but the most persistent tend to be overcoming the interference of the learner’s native language. The most persistent errors [...]

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 [...]