Learning English

The word “order” is usually treated as an uncountable (mass) noun, which means that it is normally not combined with an indefinite (...)

“Most everyone”, meaning “almost everyone”, is a colloquial phrase that became somewhat widespread in spoken American English, but the (...)

When you start learning a language written using a writing system other than the Latin alphabet (such as the Arabic script or Devanagari), (...)

Sometimes you may hear non-native English speakers and English-speaking children say that “something is stucked somewhere”. However, there (...)

One of the first things non-native English speakers learn is that the adverbial form of “good” is irregular. We don’t say, for example, (...)

There is no significant difference between “something being on fire” and “something burning”, where “something” is a flammable material. (...)

The only verb form of “obligation” that is traditionally considered correct is oblige, not “obligate”, so you cannot make a mistake by (...)

The verb “argue” has two significantly different (but related) meanings. First, you can argue with someone about something (or over (...)

Long story short, the correct form is inhabited. The reason why people (especially non-native speakers) tend to think that the word is (...)

Non-native speakers of English sometimes incorrectly say that a non-living thing, such as a boat or a piece of wood, “swims in the water” (...)