Grammar
Energy Islands
Solidarnosć thirtieth anniversary
More on Samsø
More on Scottish islands and renewable energy.
Do U h8 txt msging lingo or do U thnk its just gr8?
Some random thoughts about UK and US grammar
Follow up exercise to those random thoughts
Fumbling about with the style rules of English
Random thoughts on the Subjunctive
Video lesson - Mr Mann's disappointed horse
Some words are simply outwith some people's understanding. A rant in defence of the word 'outwith'.
Oh Brother! Labour has a new Ed.
Loop back to me and we'll touch base about this offline.
Who you are is what you eat
Who you are is what you eat 2 - Follow up exercise
Wedding vocabulary anagram quiz
Of scams and conspiracies - the language of climate change
Let's not call a spade a spade - the language of euphemisms
Intensifiers are ridiculously easy to understand
Video vocabulary quiz and a look at some collective nouns
Lots of sex please, we're British. But perhaps we should just disguise it a little.
Lesson on linking verbs aka copular verbs
In praise of Singular they
Both a borrower and a lender be
Some random August ramblings
Mastering Negativity
Random-ize: The King James Bible, -ize and -ize verbs
Random-ise: Thomas Nashe, mummianize, tympanize and other -ize verbs
It's not what you said. It's how you said it.
The Lazy Man's Guide to Acronyms
Inversion in Conditionals
Tag questions and short answers - exercises
Phrasal verbs with go
I are Hulk, I has no grammar
Why English?
Gradable and ungradable adjectives
Random stories - Narrative tenses
Politically correct language
A bit of this and that (and these and those)
Be Your Own Proofreader
Exploring grammar - verb types
Guide to Style Guides
Present Perfect – When to Use
Prepositional verbs revisited
The team are - Collective nouns in British English
Vocab game Animal trivia quizzes
Lesson on intensifiers
Unreal Past
Teacher tools - Word shapes
Random-ize: Bentley's Miscellany and the spelling of -ize suffix verbs