We are middle-class people

In the Writing Workshop series, we work together to improve our writing skills: to learn how to write better and more correctly in English. How would you combine the following information to write one sentence only?

Incidentally…

In one of his comments, Philipp wrote: P H You sum up the British position perfectly. Economic and cultural integration is wonderful but, do we want to become part of a federal Europe? Well, the answer is clearly no from the UK. I am yet to be convinced that much of the rest of Europe … Continue Reading

“On the list” or “in the list”?

In a comment, Azadeh said: Today I have been sluggish which is strange for the middle day of the week and alongside all the things in my to-do list. Which was shortly followed by this comment from Hassan: Shouldn’t it be “on my to-do list”? To which I answered: What can I say… what can I … Continue Reading

My daughter is as stubborn as a mule

In the Writing Workshop series, we work together to improve our writing skills: to learn how to write better and more correctly in English. The following text contains some mistakes and is not very well written. Let’s see if we can correct the mistakes and improve the text… My daughter, who has only 8 years … Continue Reading

Writing Workshop: a housewarming party

In the Writing Workshop series, we work together to improve our writing skills: to learn how to write better and more correctly in English. You see below a poorly written text with quite a few mistakes. Our task for this workshop is to spot the mistakes and write a correct version of the text. My … Continue Reading

Writing Workshop: Why oh why?

In the Writing Workshop series, we work together to improve our writing skills: to learn how to write better and more correctly in English.

Here we have a poorly written text with quite a few mistakes…

Writing Workshop: birthday present

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

Indoor or indoors?

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:

Hope or wish: the ultimate usage-based guide

Learners of English quite often get confused between the words “hope” and “wish”. Here is a usage-based guide with lots of examples to help you learn how to use them correctly and naturally. But before we start, a word of caution! Don’t try to find a general golden rule to solve your problem once and … Continue Reading