How to improve your vocabulary

"The Law of Life" by Jack London

Be Happy with Less Stuff

A recent survey by the National Association of Professional Organizers reveals that 54% of Americans feel overwhelmed by clutter and 78% have no idea what to do with it. According to psychologists, people accumulate things because they are unhappy but having too many posessions brings stress and more unhappiness.

Leo Has Won at Last

By Christopher William Adach from London, UK

A House

Dublin Ireland Castle House Island.

Conversational Phrase

“Interesting. I've never encountered that phrase before.”

You're talking with an English-speaking colleague and she uses a phrase that you've never heard before. You ask her to explain what it means. After she explains it, you say this.

Modal Verbs

How to use MAY, and the difference between MAY, MIGHT and COULD

As it is a modal, MAY is always followed by the ‘bare infinitive’ of the verb. This means the infinitive without ‘to’.

So we say ‘may be’, not ‘may to be’. We say ‘may have been’, not ‘may to have been’.