Ellen Jovin is a writer and English grammar guru. She gathers people at the “Grammar Table”. She says that language is a living, evolving thing, the rules of which depend on the desires, needs and whims of those who speak it and...
Many of us make mistakes when we write. The reason may be poor grammar or simple carelessness. However, mistakes affect how readers perceive what we have written. A stupid typo can ruin the impression of even a very good text. The team of the site…
There are no articles in Russian, so many people don’t understand why they are in English. The most resourceful even try to do without them. However, a grammatically correct English phrase conveys the meaning more accurately and expressively, says teacher Tata Beshenkova. In the online publication Tinkoff, she shares…
There are many English grammar rules that are taught in school. But there are also grammatical myths that are taught in educational institutions. Reader's Digest has collected 14 grammatical myths that you can safely ignore. Myth 1: Never start a sentence with "and",...