The Modern Greek language has some aspects that would totally baffle a native English speaker for various reasons.

If an image gets tarnished, you might want to clean it up or enhance it. People do different things to polish their image so they project the one they want. All these verbs are common collocations ...

T he English language is full of all sorts of quirks that can be infuriating to non-native speakers. (Imagine learning as an ...

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It was John McDonald’s goal that when we were finished with his high school English classes that we weren’t morons.

After a full-dress review of the subjunctive in the preceding chapters, this form of the English language should no longer ...