As a follow up to our recent blog post about prepositions in time, place, and location, we wanted to dive in to the confusing world of prepositions as they relate to transportation. Have you noticed that in English you say “get in the car” but you would say “get on the train”? Both are describing …
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Oct
Oct
There are about 150 prepositions in the English language, and non-native English speakers often have a hard time distinguishing which to use in order to complete a prepositional phrase. A preposition is a word that explains the time, spatial, or logical relationship between the other parts of a sentence. Since there are so many, it …
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Sep
Sep
For those of you dating (or hoping to date) an English-speaker, you might have noticed that there are several ways to talk about dating. Many of these combinations of words are called phrasal verbs: multi-word verbs that act as one verb. Phrasal verbs are formed by a verb, followed by 1-2 particles (in general, but …