dire à to say to/to tell Elle a dit à son frère de ne pas s’inquiéter. – She told her brother not to worry. demander à to ask L’élève a demandé au prof s’il y avait des devoirs. – The pupil asked the ...

A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not contain a subject and a verb working together. There are many types of phrases, including verb phrases, adverb phrases, and adjective phrases.

About two years ago, I conducted an informal survey among those whose proficiency in English is fairly good to find out which aspect of English they found difficult to master. Those who took part in ...

The preposition, ‘on’, features in a good number of phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb consists of a verb with a preposition or adverb (or both at times), with a meaning different from those of its ...

My normal human friends put their prepositions of time at the beginning or end of the sentence: "This morning, I got high"; "I got high this morning." Yet journalists always seem to stick it between ...