What’s the difference between objective and subjective?
I had an idea to write an article discussing the difference between flexible and inflexible language rules, and when it matters to be precise or not. This is a broad and nuanced topic, which veers into matters of opinion, and I realised first it would be more useful...
Commas in Use: an Exercise
I’ve been mostly editing books lately, so a lot of my focus has been on little details of English in written work. A frequent topic for inconsistencies or complications is commas, hence I have produced a full group of articles about them on this site. I was going to...
English Idioms & Sayings: Exercise 3
I have finally completed my Idioms and Sayings series with a third exercise covering some common expressions in English. Sorry it’s taken me a couple of years to get back to this – it’s mostly because I forgot, but also the rest of the list went missing! As a...
The Big ELB Business Vocabulary List
I used to work in business writing (or writing copy, as we call functional English text), and ran a website with articles about this, which some of you may remember. That website is now gone but I still have a lot of articles saved, which I’ve been meaning to...Want to Master English?
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