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May 5,
Journeying Through Time: Exploring the Past Perfect Tense in English Grammar

The past perfect tense is a verb tense used to indicate an action that was completed before another action took place in the past. It is formed by using the auxiliary verb "had" followed by the past participle of the main verb.

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April 28,
No Crystal Ball Needed: Navigating the Future in British English

The future tense in British English is used to talk about actions or events that will happen at some point after the present moment. It is used to express plans, intentions, predictions, and speculations about the future.

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August 13,
Partitives Quiz

Practise your understanding of partitives.

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March 7,
"Pun"ctuation and grammar

We like puns. We like puns about grammar even more. Here are a few of our favourites.

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March 14,
Mistranslated text, misspellings and bad grammar

All three of the above can be found in the murky world of the tattoo parlour. A professional translation service recently launched a "Think Before You Ink" campaign to cut down the number of terrible tattoo travesties. One man wanted to show the world how "awesome" but he ended up "awsome" instead. A young lad […]

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June 20,
Dead words

A couple of days ago someone wrote to me and asked if I had heard of 'Corpus Linguistics'.  The first thing that popped into my head was "dead words".  (Corpus - corpse / linguistics - words).  In my mind's eye I saw a load of words lying around, unloved and unused, dying or dead.   […]

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