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Grammar of Spoken English (2): Suggest

Summary: This post is about how to speak better English with regard to the verb ‘suggest‘, one of the most common words that is used incorrectly.  Instead of meeting the difficult term ‘gerund’, you will ‘encounter’ the concept, the idea behind ‘suggest + verb + ing‘.    In a way, this post attempts to change the way you think about verbs, sentences, […]

Grammar of Spoken English (1)

Most of us (whose mother tongue is not English) have been learning English for years.  But sometimes there are questions to which we don’t know how to explain. What questions am I talking about?  For example, everyone knows that ‘take your time‘ is polite, right.  But the question is: why?  Why is it polite?  I […]