Both Zbyszek from Poland and Iqbal Ahmad from Pakistan write that they find it difficult to differentiate between transitive and intransitive verbs: 'Please explain the difference and give us some ...

Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...

Time to capsize the mailbag, check the leftovers before the year checks out. Random notes like the lay-lie muddle, via Gillian Appleton: “I downloaded a relaxation app but had to delete it as the ...

In 1934 when Gaston Bachelard published his Nouvel Esprit Scientifiquefootnote 1 and Karl Popper’s Logik der Forschungfootnote 2 appeared few philosophers would have dissented from the view that ...

They can be used to join together two clauses in a sentence. However, the clauses need to make sense on their own. For example: I had a terrible cold. I still went to work. You can add the ...