By Jacqueline Schaalje In this article I am going to show you how to use sentences with whenever, wherever, whatever, whoever, whichever and however. You probably know that you can say: “Whatever,” when someone asks you a question. For example: Your friend asks you: “Would you like to go for a walk in the park… Continue reading How to Use Whenever, Wherever, Whatever, Whoever, However, Whichever
Birds of a feather flock __________ – People like to be with other people who are like them. Choose the right answer: better in heavy weather together better together scroll down for the answer scroll some more The right answer is: Together. Here is an example… Continue reading Instant Proverb: Birds of a feather flock __________
By Jacqueline Schaalje Hot guy? Collocations are words that go together well. You can have collocations in any language. Has it happened to you that you said something that was a perfect transtation from a combination of words in your language, and then your English teacher or English friend started giggling? For instance you said… Continue reading Collocations: Feeling the Soft Breeze?
invective (noun) – insulting, sarcastic or mean language invective (adjective) – insulting, sarcastic or mean (about language) Note: not used a lot invectively (adverb) – said in a way that is insulting, sarcastic or mean. Note: rarely used. Examples of how you can use it: In several undemocratic countries in the world you can hear a lot of anti-American… Continue reading Word to the Wise: invective
By Jacqueline Schaalje You probably say good and bad a hundred times a day. The movie was bad. The food was good. Instead of saying good and bad all the time, you can use more exciting words such as beautiful, breathtaking and awesome, or the opposite: terrible, horrendous and hideous. But you can also vary… Continue reading Pretty Darn Good – Valuing things with Good and Bad
Zach Flanders ally (noun) – a friendly and/or cooperating relationship ally (verb) – to form a friendly and/or cooperating relationship allied/allying (adjective) – connected in a friendly and/or cooperating relationship alliance (noun) – a friendly and/or cooperating relationship Examples: The US is looking for allies to join the battle against the terrorist force. France allied with the… Continue reading Word to the Wise: ally
By Jacqueline Schaalje Ian D. Keating Check out this infographic to learn these words with pater and mater, and then try the quiz! Pater and mater or pa and ma are used in some English words as prefixes (a prefix is a little (part of a) word that comes at the beginning of another word and… Continue reading Learn a few words with Pater and Mater Vocabulary and Online Quiz
Paul Stein wages (noun) (usually plural) – the money that employers pay to employees for work that they did (can be per hour, day or week). (Wages for a month is usually called salary.) minimum wage (noun) – the lowest wage that is legal in a country to pay employees living wage (noun) – a sum of money that a… Continue reading Word to the Wise: Wages
By Jacqueline Schaalje One thing that will make your writing much better is to vary the sentence type. It doesn’t matter what kind of text you’re writing: it can be a story, an essay or a report. For whatever text you write, you can be sure that people will get bored when the sentences all… Continue reading Quick Tip How to Get Better Writing: Use Different Sentence Types
mischief/mischievousness (noun) – naughty or playful behaviour that can annoy other people mischievous (adjective) – naughty or playful in a way that can annoy other people mischievously (adverb) – in a naughty or playful way that can annoy other people Sequola Hughes Who do you think will be more mischievous: the pelican or the child? Examples: Let me check whether… Continue reading Word to the Wise: mischief
English with a Smile 