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A Christmas Story: A free audio e-book for you!

Posted on December 17, 2008, in About English, Advanced, Bits and Pieces, Books and Reading, Intermediate, Podcast, with 3 Comments

[display_podcast] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And I send this to all of our readers, no matter whether you celebrate Christmas in your culture or not – may you all have a wonderful and prosperous 2009. Christmas is.

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Bitter Sweet : Suite Française – A Writer’s Lesson

Posted on January 7, 2008, in Advanced, Books and Reading, Grammar FAQ, Podcast, Writing, with 3 Comments

It’s not that unusual in fiction for dramatic events in an author’s life to enter into the work of fiction that they are creating. It’s perhaps a lot less common when that real life drama is happening at the same.

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A Christmas Carol : New Audio E-Book

Posted on December 18, 2007, in About English, Books and Reading, English for Fun, Grammar FAQ, Intermediate, Podcast, Updates, with 0 Comments

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And I send this to all of our readers, no matter whether you celebrate Christmas in your culture or not – may you all have a wonderful and prosperous 2009. Christmas is almost.

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Sentence Structure : Writing fuel-efficient sentences

Posted on December 13, 2007, in About English, Advanced, Books and Reading, Grammar, Grammar FAQ, Podcast, Writing, with 3 Comments

[display_podcast] Question from Rima in the USA: This sentence is driving us crazy! I realize it could be called compound, complex, compound-complex, or just crazy, but I have to ask: Is this sentence technically written wrongly? “In Canada, the Smith.

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The Road : Rolling Your Own English

Posted on December 8, 2007, in About English, Advanced, Books and Reading, Grammar, Podcast, Writing, with 0 Comments

[display_podcast] In previous posts I’ve talked about how English is a living, changing and very flexible language. Contributing to this is the way that writers often change, stretch and bend the framework of language – grammar, vocabulary and syntax –.

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Is the phonetic alphabet really that powerful?

Posted on December 2, 2007, in About English, About Words, Books and Reading, Power User, Vocabulary, Writing, with 3 Comments

[display_podcast] In an earlier post I talked a little about how an understanding of English grammar can take you a long way to being a better communicator and a better learner. In this post I want to take a quick.

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Punctuation: choose your sense

Posted on November 19, 2007, in About Words, Books and Reading, Grammar, Grammar FAQ, Intermediate, Podcast, with 0 Comments

[display_podcast] Punctuation, especially in emails, seems to be an area that is virtually ignored. I’ve never been too fussy or pedantic about how English is written or spoken as I’m one of those who believe that as long as we.

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Earning your daily salami … a writer’s perspective

Posted on October 3, 2007, in About English, About Words, Books and Reading, Podcast, Writing, with 0 Comments

[display_podcast] I’m not a huge fan of the immensely successful Stephen King, all that blood and creepy creatures from beyond the grave give me too many sleepless nights, but I stumbled upon some Stephen King quotes the other day which.

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Speed Reading

Posted on November 10, 2005, in Books and Reading, with 2 Comments

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