Grammar is a powerful tool, a set of machines to generate a variety of sentences and questions. Yet it’s still controversial, and not always popular with students. In this article, I explain why I take a positive view towards learning grammar.
Category: For Students
Things I want my students to know about English – Part 1
Language choices aren’t necessarily correct or incorrect – there’s a whole spectrum of possibilities, depending on who creates the rules of English!
What are typical native speaker errors?
It’s well known that native speakers of English make errors often enough, especially in writing. This is a selective list of some of these errors.
Commas, Comments and Clauses
A guide to commas for advanced learners, covering complex sentences, conditionals, subsidiary clauses and appositives. Part of a series of punctuation resources.
Quiz: COMMAS AND CLAUSES (B2-C1)
Here’s a little quiz I made earlier for a German student who was preparing for the TOEFL. It covers relative clauses, subsidiary clauses, and sentence
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