French word of the week: instant
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 noun ‘instant’.
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How to use ‘Used to’
The verb used to is a ‘marginal’ modal verb. Unlike the other modal verbs, it is only found in the past tense. Therefore,
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Spanish words of the week: palma or palmo?
It’s that time of the week when we seek to get the measure of two more similar-looking Spanish nouns and how they are used. These are palma (feminine) and palmo (masculine).
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Use of Shall and Will
The normal way to express simple future time in English is using the modal verb will followed by the base form of a main
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French word of the week: monter
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 ‘monter’.
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Love language: the vocabulary of romantic comedies
Love is in the air! With Valentine’s Day upon us and a brand-new Bridget Jones film set to grace our
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Spanish words of the week: rueda or ruedo?
Time to separate out another pair of potentially confusable Spanish nouns… Join us as we set the ball rolling with
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French word of the week: nul
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 word ‘nul’.
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Each/Every/Either/Neither
The words each, every, either, and neither are distributives. Distributives are determiners that are used to talk about how something is shared out or divided.
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