You might have seen the term collocations, and if not, then perhaps the less technical word-partnerships, or something similar. Even if you don’t remember seeing these terms, you’ve very likely done some language exercises where you should combine verbs and nouns such as do (verb) + housework (noun); or make combinations of adjectives and nouns, […]
Talking about the future in English is done differently than talking about the present or the past. This is probably because the present and the past are more certain than the future. If you were to ask me where I am and what I am doing at this very moment, I could tell you. But […]
Strictly speaking, English only has two tenses: the present tense and the past tense. Of course English speakers can talk about the future, too, but there is no single, fixed, future tense. Instead, English has a variety of ways to talk about the future, which the following examples show: I’m in Chicago all next week, […]
Synonyms, you’ve probably heard of. Synonyms are words that have similar meaning to each other. Sick and ill are synonyms, as are buy and purchase. Homonyms, on the other hand, are words that look or sound the same, but have different meanings. The following words are homonyms of each other: to, too, and two. And […]
