Every week, we’ll be sharing a list of posts, stories, news, or opinions that we've run across the Internet during the past week or two. We won't be discussing them in detail here, but we do encourage you to check them out as they could contain valuable ideas and insights for your
IELTS exam.
If you're ready, here we go...
Fart (“not in delicate use”) looks like a product of our time, but it has existed since time immemorial.
Research conducted at the University of Slovenia suggests that word frequency for the most common phrases in English was much more variable 500 years ago than in the present day.
About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.
Is there any basis for using the word basis as a shortcut for based upon?
Your guide to the history and nuance of four common, and not so common,
punctuation marks.
What’s the difference between these 2 words, and are they even related?
Learn how to properly use the English phrases here.
Here are examples on how to avoid misplaced modifiers in your
sentences.
The author shares tips that may help you start writing or keep writing if you struggle to finish.
Middle school students who frequently use "tech-speak"—omitting letters to shorten words and using homophone symbols, such as @ for "at" or 2nite for "tonight"—performed worse on a test of basic
grammar, according to a new study in New Media & Society.
Starting to get depressed on your
IELTS scores? The author shares good insights on how to
overcome our trials and obstacles.
Do you know how to use body language effectively? To gain status and confidence, learn these simple yet powerful techniques that could be used for your
IELTS speaking exam.
The author shares her thoughts on lists containing overused words and phrases in the foodie genre.
Ending a sentence with a
preposition isn't actually wrong—it's just that everyone thinks it is. Grammar Girl weighs in on this and other common rules.
From Bromance to Twitterati, here are some more recent additions.
Check out the author's discussion on language death.
Language change is largely a bottom-up affair — and the moment is ripe for a mass movement to simplify English spelling.
How do you label your public
speaking nervousness? Do you say, "I hate public
speaking?" How about saying to yourself, "I'm excited to have the opportunity to share my message with this audience?"
Read an article about forensic linguists.
A married man's lover is his mistress. What's the name for a woman's illicit lover? Searching for an answer to that question points to the many gender-related asymmetries in English.
Every language has words that its own speakers, or speakers of other languages, deem untranslatable.
Text messaging may offer tweens a quick way to send notes to friends and family, but it could lead to declining language and
grammar skills, according to researchers.
When was the last time you sent or received a
letter?
Letters are your legacy. Something to remain after you’re gone. Isn’t that one of the reasons every writer writes and every artist creates?
The author suggests that you should find the right emotions and make them a part of your presentations.
The author suggests that we should try to do something you are bad at too whether that is singing, speaking or drawing. "
Just do it!", she says.
