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When the Past Tense Makes Us Tense

Today, let's weed our grammatical garden. Betty Lundy of West Point, Mississippi, wonders how to say that her son removed ...
“Hi, Magi. Your eyes look so sunken! What’s going on? Are you binge-watching?” “No, Millie. I was surfing the net looking for ...
The government has announced that some migrants coming to the UK in 2026 will need to demonstrate they can speak English to ...
Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Being able to use the past tense correctly is very important when you learn a language. It enables you to speak, write and read about past events and to ...
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Who guards the hometown accent?

Once when I was in Thai Binh, someone asked me in Vietnamese about my "nương". I froze for a second. "Why's he asking me ...
When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses, ...
English, along with the vast majority of the world’s languages, uses what linguists call egocentric or relative spatial description. So if you were to describe where something is, you would give a ...
What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big, blinding event: kaboom! Vulcanologists, seismologists, geologists and ...
The Bible reveals to us that there are two keys to entering the kingdom of God. What they are is clearly delineated in one ...