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Do You Speak Legalese?

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Legalese is not a real language:) Yet it is a human language in a way. It is the way

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Who Wrote What? Test yourself!

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Joseph Brodsky)

Do you read? Sadly, nowadays, reading seems to be out. I hope I am wrong, though, perhaps things are not that bad, and people simply tend to prefer electronic versions  of novels to paperbacks. Or it might be so that there is nobody by your side to recommend you a good book to read!

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 September 2008 13:56 ) Read more...
 

Quizzes on Active & Passive Tenses

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For reasons beyond my understanding, school traditionally starts with revising Present Tenses as if there were nothing more exciting to study than the everlasting do-does-am-is-are puzzle.

 

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What is a phrasal verb?

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A phrasal verb is a verb usually followed by a preposition. The difference between an ordinary verb followed by a preposition (eg look at a word) and a phrasal verb (eg look up a word) is that

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What's an Idiom?

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An idiom is defined as a word sequence, i.e. a phrase, whose meaning cannot easily be worked out from its individual words or, in other words, is not a 100% literal. The degree of transparency of an idiom can range from

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