This series of weekly blogs takes a closer look at words from our French dictionaries. The words we're focusing on this week are the French verbs 'apporter' and 'amener'. Read More
Passive verbs are made from a form of be + the past participle of a main verb. In the passive, the form of the auxiliary verb be indicates the tense. They sell cheap computer games here. Cheap computer games are sold here. They took him to the police station for questioning. He was taken to the police station for questioning. Some verbs are only… Read More
Our task today is to cut through the meanings of two more similar-looking Spanish nouns with different genders, endings and usage: these are cuchillo (masculine) and cuchilla (feminine). Read More
This series of weekly blogs takes a closer look at words from our French dictionaries. The word we're focusing on this week is the French verb 'donner'. Read More
Irregular verbs are verbs that do not form the past simple tense and the past participle by adding -ed to the base form. There are three main groups of irregular verbs in English. In Group A, the base form, the past simple and the past participle are the same: The base form, e.g. put The… Read More
No getting the wrong end of the stick with Spanish nouns palo (masculine) and pala (feminine) as we continue our series looking at the commonest meanings of potentially confusable words. Read More
This series of weekly blogs takes a closer look at words from our French dictionaries. The word we're focusing on this week is the French verb 'ennuyer'. Read More
English verbs have up to five different forms. These are: the base form, e.g. pull the 3rd person singular, present simple tense, e.g. pulls the past simple tense, e.g. pulled the past participle, e.g. pulled the present participle, e.g. pulling Regular verbs are all formed in the same way, by building… Read More
A new year brings a new opportunity to uncover the meanings of two superficially similar Spanish nouns that mean slightly different things. This week’s words are gorro (masculine) and gorra (feminine). Read More