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One-syllable adjectives with comparative “more” instead of -er
One of the first rules an English learner learns is that the comparative degree of monosyllabic (one-syllable) adjectives is formed by (...)
February 19, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Improve your English vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar with E. A. Poe’s poem The Raven
This book should be understood as a tool to improve one’s English through the poem, not just as a book about this poem in particular. (...)
February 12, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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“In literature” vs. “in the literature” in English
When people write an essay or a scientific paper, they often say that it is possible to “find something in the literature”. But why “the (...)
February 1, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Got’ vs. ‘gotten’ in English
Let’s not beat around the bush with complicated linguistic terms; the difference between “got” and “gotten” is relatively simple. (...)
January 30, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Help do’ vs. ‘help to do’ vs. ‘help doing’ in English
Both “help someone do something” and “help someone to do something” are acceptable. The form without “to” seems to be more common in (...)
January 25, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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Lie, lied, lay, laid (and layed) in English
The verbs “lie” and “lay” are perhaps the two most confusing irregular English verbs. “Lie” has two meanings: It can mean “not to tell the (...)
January 23, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Clothes is’ vs. ‘clothes are’ in English
The word for “clothes” is singular in many languages, e.g. la ropa in Spanish or die Kleidung in German, and its plural in most contexts (...)
January 20, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘And’, ‘but’, ‘or’, and ‘so’ at the beginning of a sentence
Most people were told at some point in their lives that starting a sentence with a conjunction is ungrammatical. Long story short, no such (...)
January 12, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘In office’ vs. ‘in the office’ vs. ‘at the office’ in English
After I published my article about being in/at school, one of my readers asked me about the difference between “in office” and “at (...)
January 9, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘At school’ vs. ‘in school’ in British and American English
There are no definitive guidelines to the distinction between “at school” and “in school” because the terms are used in a different way in (...)
January 3, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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