Certain words in English always have an “s” at the end because they are inherently plural. Some of these words Read more…
Tag: Lexis and Structure
One common error English learners make is incorrectly pluralizing the word ‘potential’. ‘Potentials’ is incorrect in standard English. According to Read more…
English is full of words that sound similar but have completely different meanings. One common mix-up is between “invincible” and Read more…
Some stative verbs can be used as dynamic verbs; that is, they can attract ‘-ing’ or be used in a Read more…
Whenever a statement begins with, or is marked by ‘if’, it automatically becomes a conditional statement or tense. In English, Read more…
It is important to avoid using or saying my own, his own, our own, their own, her own, your own when Read more…
Any perfect continuous tense (whether present perfect continuous, past perfect continuous, or future perfect continuous) shows the duration for the Read more…
As I’ve always told my students at TBOSE Tutorial, a perfective tense shows completeness; it shows that an action has Read more…
One big thing to note about collective nouns is that they are names that we give to a group of Read more…
Last week, a Twitter user lamented the poor use of English by Nigerians. In her words, “It’s dinner not dinner Read more…
