Sometime ago, a student in Cambodia preparing for a special English-language scholarship test sent me an e-mail expressing ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...

Ní neart go cur le chéile. Ciallaíonn an seanfhocal seo gur láidre i bhfad grúpa/ foireann daoine má oibríonn siad i gcomhar ...

Specifically, they discuss how to use verbs effectively and how ... or sometimes the closest noun phrase. In such cases, construct your sentences carefully to avoid suggesting nonsense.

Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and boat. How about we expand those noun phrases? Expanded noun phrases tell you more about the noun. So, 'there's a beast' could be expanded to ...