Combining Nouns: Possessive S and Other Weirdness
In my ongoing mission to reduce PowerPoint text to a minimum, this blog looks at how English uses phrases like “Mary’s phone” to show that one noun “owns” another without the need for prepositions. These short cuts for combining nouns can be confusing for non-native...
Adaptarse al cambio
Adaptarse al cambio supone cambiar de rutinas, tomar nuevas decisiones y renovarse; renovarse e innovar. Con la situación que ya conocemos muchos estudiantes han tenido que cursar sus estudios de manera únicamente online. Exámenes online, temario online, tutorías...
Phrasal Verbs: Catching Up
In my last blog, I tried to explain how phrasal verbs enable native English speakers to go into detail about how they go up stairs (we walk up them, run up them or stagger up them drunk). If we move something else to a higher place, we generally just pick it up and...