B1B2
Sensible vs Sensitive: Practical Judgement or Strong Reaction?
Avoid a common false-friend error by separating practical judgement from emotional or physical sensitivity.
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Common Mistakes
Common English mistakes, explained clearly.
Understand frequent mistakes, why they happen and the natural English to use instead.
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B1B2
Raise vs Rise: Cause Something to Go Up or Go Up by Itself?
Use transitivity to distinguish raise from rise in prices, salaries, questions, temperatures and everyday movement.
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Lie vs Lay: Recline or Put Something Down?
Master one of English’s most confusing verb pairs by tracking whether the verb takes an object.
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Accept vs Except: Receive or Exclude?
Separate two similar-looking words by grammar, meaning and pronunciation.
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Unclear Pronoun Reference: Fixing This, It, They, and Which
Make professional writing clearer by ensuring every pronoun has an obvious, logically appropriate referent.
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Double Negatives in Standard English: When Two Negatives Change the Meaning
Avoid accidental double negatives in formal English and understand when two negatives are used deliberately for a positive or nuanced meaning.
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Fewer vs Less: Countable, Uncountable, and Real-World Exceptions
Use fewer and less accurately while understanding why time, money and distance sometimes behave differently.
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Been To, Gone To, and Been In: Where Is the Person Now?
Understand the present-location meaning behind been to, gone to and been in with clear travel examples.
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Actually, Currently, and Eventually: Three Misleading Adverbs
Avoid false-friend errors by learning what these common adverbs really mean in contemporary English.
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Travel, Trip, and Journey: The Difference in Natural English
Use travel, trip and journey naturally by separating the general activity, the complete visit and the movement from one place to another.
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Remember vs Remind: Memory or Causing Someone to Remember?
Choose remember and remind correctly by identifying who has the memory and who causes it to return.
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Lose vs Loose: Meaning, Spelling, and Pronunciation
Stop mixing up lose and loose by connecting spelling with meaning and pronunciation.
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