How to talk about the Weather

The weather is a practical topic of English language conversation. Not only does the weather influence our fashion choices, but it’s a common topic of “small talk”. The weather can be used as a good ice breaker to start a conversation with someone you don’t know well.Not all of America experiences the four seasons:

15 Grammar Goofs That Make You Look Silly

Grammar is one of the most debated subjects on the Internet. Trolls, know-it-alls and helpful grammar gurus all bring it up if they should stumble upon a comment, post or article that doesn’t really measure up to the English grammar rules. For someone who is not born or raised in a country where English is the native language, it can be hard to get the message across when you have to stumble along with grammar that doesn’t really make sense. However,

Stress and Rhythm

Many students think that learning English is about learning grammar, consonants, vowels, and vocabulary. These form the basic foundation of a language, however, if you want to be understood when speaking American English, and if you want to understand native speakers, it is essential that you improve your stress and rhythm.

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The Past Perfect Tense

In English grammar, perfect tenses are used to show that one thing happens before another thing in the past. For today’s English lesson, I am going to show you how to use the past perfect tense.

Misplaced Modifiers

• Misplaced Modifiers can cause considerable confusion to readers and can also be a great source of amusement to them. The error caused by misplaced modifier can be depicted pictorially through many humorous examples. 
• Modifiers are like teenagers – they fall in love

About Dollar

When you go shopping, it is important to be able to say and listen to the amounts of money correctly. Here are some basic examples:

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off the charts

If something is “off the charts” it means that it is too big to even measure, or “unusually large in some way”. If a person weighs 250 kg, you could say that their weight is “off the charts“.  It’s “too big to measure” or “too big for a normal scale to measure”. It doesn’t have to be ONLY about physical