Tag «test your english»

Test your English: count vs. non-count nouns

Which of these sentences are grammatically correct? 1. My boss gave me a very useful feedback the other day. 2. Supermarkets have aisles for different foods. 3. I have loads of homeworks to do. Easy, huh? Well, carry on.

Things that maybe you didn’t know about despite and in spite of

Last week I attended an interesting talk on the role of corpora in language teaching and it reminded me a small-scale, corpus-based study I carried out in the late 90s as part of my coursework at Lancaster university. Here are some of the questions I sent out to investigate using the British National Corpus: 1. …