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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 [...]

Chinese families and communities are very close-knit, so ESL students may have somewhat limited exposure to Western culture.  Chinese students are often learning and speaking English only in [...]

TALK Atlanta is a school that is remarkable for the huge diversity of nationalities and cultures that the school attracts. This has become a source of pride: in their testimonials,  students talk [...]

TALK English School receives many international students who have started their ESL studies at other schools and then been convinced by some of our students whom they meet or just from looking [...]

Ryotaro Tsuchiya was a student at TALK Fort Lauderdale, where he enrolled to learn English for 9 months. After graduating, Ryotaro took off on a great American road trip. Here, Ryotaro talks [...]