by Phil Williams | Apr 9, 2024 | Exercises, Vocabulary
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...
by Phil Williams | Mar 12, 2024 | Business English, Vocabulary
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...
by Phil Williams | Feb 13, 2024 | Vocabulary
I’ve touched on prefixes and suffixes a little in the past, and when I was asked if it’s possible to form adjectives from verbs it made me think of a suffix that deserves an article of its own: -y. The letter -y appears at the end of many words in English, but can...
by Phil Williams | Oct 10, 2023 | Exercises, Grammar
It’s October, so Halloween is coming and it’s Spooky Season, which we are a fan of here on ELB. I’ve got lots of seasonal articles on the website, and you can find all my Halloween features here. Today I’m going to share a new mixed tenses exercise using...
by Phil Williams | Sep 12, 2023 | Vocabulary, Writing skills
I felt like it was time for a look at some vocabulary for once, so today I’m sharing some thoughts on how to develop and use an advanced vocabulary, from a chapter originally published in Advanced Writing Skills (which celebrated some big milestones last...