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Classification of Posts

 

About Human Language

Two Languages, Two Minds?

Effect of multilingualism on personality

What Happens When You Drop a Cup?

Different perspectives of different languages

Where on Earth Would You Rather Be?

Languages & spatial reference

The Moon and Her Gentle Light

Languages & gender differences

 

Taking English Further

Moving Beyond the Intermediate Plateau

How to advance from the intermediate level in English

Want to Speak English Fluently?

Gaining fluency in English

Unless You Read This...

‘Unless’ & ‘if not’

If I Were You...

Mixed conditionals

If I Were You... II

Mixed conditionals (continued)

If She Found Out About It...

Real & unreal conditionals, wishes, possibilities

If You Heard His Remark...

Real & unreal conditionals

I Can Hear You Singing

Bare infinitive/gerund after verbs of perception (see _ cross/crossing, hear _ sing/singing…)

I Think I Must Mention This

‘Must’, ‘have to’, ‘can’t’, ‘must have’, ‘can’t have’

Please Don't Quote This 'Stuff'

Quotation marks & punctuation

To Hit the Headlines

Title styles

Any of You Interested in This?

Singular & plural usage

Are You Taller Than Me?

Pronoun case after ‘than’, ‘as’, ‘be’; word order

I Didn't Need to Do It

‘Needn’t’/’don’t need to’, ‘needn’t have’/’didn’t need to’

What's Different?

‘Different from/to/than’

In Case You Didn't Notice

‘In case’ & ‘if’

What's the Alternative?

‘Alternate’ & ’alternative’

No Matter What Happens, We'll Stick Together

‘No matter what’/’whatever’…

Is It Time to Go Green?

Expressions with ‘green’

Let's Agree to Disagree

‘Agree with/to/on/about’

Read Anything Except This!

‘Except’, ‘besides’, ‘apart from’

Between You, Me and the Gatepost...

‘Between’ & ‘among’

Ever Thought of This?

‘Think about/of/over’

I Only Saw Her Yesterday

Placing of ‘only’

Want to Switch Lunch and Dinner?

Names of meals

 

English Usage for Sinhala Speakers

ඉංගිරිසි Ingirisi

Details of English usage explained in Sinhala

 

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