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Advice or advices – singular or plural?
Slightly surprisingly, “advice” is an uncountable (mass) noun in English (like “water” or “sand”), and as such it has no plural (...)
June 13, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Nouns with identical singular and plural forms
English is, thankfully, not a very irregular language when it comes to nouns. The vast majority of nouns form the plural by simply adding (...)
June 12, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Jakub Marian’s Complete English Book Bundle
Get all my books in my Complete English PDF 5-Book Bundle
This website is a big project of just one (...)
June 7, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Mind-boggling Indianisms
I am sure many of you reading this article have never heard or come across this term before. Well, this is a word used a lot in India, (...)
June 7, 2015 – Sateesh Padmanabhan – English
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‘Didn’t find’ vs. ‘haven’t found’ in English
Speakers of Slavic languages are well familiar with the notion of aspect. Aspect expresses how an action relates to the flow of (...)
June 6, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Equivocal – a confusing word
The word “equivocal” looks like “equally vocal”, and, surprise, surprise, it does come from Latin aequivocus, meaning “of equal voice” or (...)
June 4, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Difference between ‘particular’ and ‘concrete’
The words “concrete” and “particular” get commonly confused by English learners. Of course, we are not talking about “concrete” in the (...)
May 25, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘At first sight’ vs. ‘at the first sight’ in English
When used with a noun, the adjective “first” is almost always preceded by “the” or a possessive determiner, such as “my”, “your”, “his”, (...)
May 19, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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The Raven – Stanza XIV explained
Stanza XIV of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven is one of the hardest pieces of English literature to understand for a non-native speaker. (...)
May 13, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Graphics is’ vs. ‘graphics are’ – singular or plural?
There are many singular English nouns that end with an “s”, such as mathematics, physics, or politics. Those are typically names of (...)
May 11, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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