As we have a couple of days of vacation, I and my family decided to visit our relatives in Sanandj, the center of Kurdistan province. While we were there, we had to go to the countryside with a friend one afternoon. It is spring in north hemisphere and everywhere is green, a special light green … Continue Reading
What you see below is a poorly written text with quite a few mistakes: You don’t seem happy of your birthday present. Don’t you like it? What?! You wanted diamond necklace?! Who do you think am I? Bill Gates? No! I never said I will buy you jewellery! Stop to have such unrealistic expectations. You … Continue Reading
In the “I have a question” series, we discuss your language-related questions and problems. Would you please explain about how we should deal with the problem of the correct usage of tenses in relation together, or a grammer text that we can refer to when we get caught in making sentences in which we need … Continue Reading
Whatever the results will be tonight, just one thing which is obviously certain is that we could say: “Good bye Mr. President!”
In the Confusables series, we talk about English words and expressions that are easily confused with one another because of similarities in spelling, pronunciation, and/or meaning. What is the difference between because and because of? To answer the question, we must talk a little about conjunctions and prepositions first. A conjunction /kənˈdʒʌŋkʃn/ is a word … Continue Reading
On Sunday, I made a suggestion on the website: why not say hello to Philippe and discover the “Tourist tram” near Wambrechies? And that’s exactly what we did. It was a sunny and warm day and we decided to walk from Lille to Wambrechies. We had a picnic on our way, with a salad and … Continue Reading
This is the first post with an experimental format that I am calling “The Russian Dolls”. The text is revealed step by step as you engage with it and answer some questions… This post is about Adele, James Bond, and more…
The difference between indoor and indoors (or outdoor and outdoors) is very simple. Without getting into grammatical analysis, here are a few examples to help you get a better “feel” for the words:
Today is a very beautiful day! It will be very nice to spend time outdoor. I remember that Philippe said that the “Tourist Tramway” begun to run again last Saturday. Philippe belongs to the society Amitram and will drive the tramway this afternoon.