The state of stative verbs

or why I've stopped teaching them (and why you shouldn't bother with them either) Photo by Emma Newman Segev via ELTpics on Flickr ...

It doesn't matter

Photo by Victoria Boobyer via eltpics   Do your students often say "it's depend..." or things like "it's not cost mu...

What corpora HAVE done for us

Sinclair's seminal work - the bible of corpus linguistics In this post I would like to defend linguistic corpora and their relevance to ...

Sloppy Brits or uptight Americans?

Who is sloppier when it comes to grammar or should we all just get over it? A recent discussion on a teachers’forum has made me wonder amus...

Spoken Grammar

Sometime in March the day after the Oscar ceremony, one of my Facebook friends posted: Mazal Tov to the King's Speech! to which I replie...