Halloween vocabulary – abysmal adjectives
To get in the mood for Halloween, a favourite holiday in the UK and America, here’s a list of some useful adjectives to describe creepy scenarios! Perfect for building a scary scene and setting some devilish ambience – these are all adjectives with descriptions and...
Should “no” be followed by a singular or a plural noun?
No is used to describe nouns, meaning zero – no cheese, no fun, no noise, no clowns, etc. Withuncountable nouns, zero is always followed by a plural – zero people, zero degrees, etc. However, no is more flexible than zero. Normally, it is followed by a plural...Friday Vocabulary Lessons on Twitter
Bored of filling the English Lessons Brighton Twitter page with links to ELB articles (a huge variety of content as there is here), I have decided to start a series of scheduled Twitter lessons, to make things more interesting. The first of these that I am introducing...The names of all the letters in the English alphabet
When you need to spell a word out loud, there is a recognised vocabulary for naming the individual letters of the English alphabet. The names of these letters mostly correspond to the sound of the letter itself (usually in a single long vowel form, or with a consonant...
What is a bare infinitive?
As part of the introduction to the grammar guide The English Tenses, I explain important words that are required to understand English grammar – including participles and infinitives. The following is a full explanation of what we mean when we say the bare...Want to Master English?
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