by Phil Williams | Oct 1, 2025 | Books, Grammar
Continuing from the plan I laid out in my recent blog post, we’re into the second month of me giving my grammar guides away free on the website. For all of October, you can now download The English Tenses Practical Grammar Guide absolutely free. As a quick...
by Phil Williams | Sep 2, 2025 | Books, Grammar
As promised in my most recent blog post, over the next four months I’m going to give away each of my books on this website, starting with Word Order in English Sentences. If you missed that post, I thought it time to put out the books a bit more freely, given that the...
by Phil Williams | Aug 19, 2025 | General English
Hello from ELB! It has been a little while, so I want to address my increasingly irregular updates. It’s with great regret that over these past few months I’ve been unable to continue my monthly new articles, which I’d otherwise managed without fail for 12 years....
by Phil Williams | May 13, 2025 | Grammar, Vocabulary, Words, Writing skills
If you want to say something with fewer words in English, it’s often possible to choose more specific vocabulary. When it comes to choosing your verbs, this can impact entire phrases. Today, I’m looking at a common issue in my fiction editing work, where we have verbs...
by Phil Williams | Mar 11, 2025 | General English
In English, we can indicate quoted text with either single quotes, ‘–’ or double quotes, “–”. Typically it is expected that you use one style or the other, but they can also be combined. This can lead to some confusion as to exactly when you should use double or...