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‘Eat healthily’ vs. ‘eat healthy’ in English
When you want to express that the manner in which you eat is healthy, you can do so using the adverb “healthily” (or “healthfully”) or by (...)
March 6, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Irregular English verbs: -ake to -ook (take, shake, forsake)
A few English verbs follow the pattern -ake → -ook → -aken in the past tense. They are all derived from the verb “take”, apart from (...)
March 2, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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Irregular English verbs: -eave to -eft
There are only three English verbs that follow the pattern -eave /iːv/ → -eft /ɛft/, namely (listed as infinitive – past tense – (...)
February 23, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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‘Than I’ vs. ‘than me’ in English
There has been an ongoing debate whether the correct form after “than” is I, he, she, we, and they or me, him, her, us, and them. (...)
February 23, 2015 – Jakub Marian – English
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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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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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