by sheila_admin | Jun 17, 2012 | Language Functions, Linguistics, Vocabulary & Spelling
An Antonym or Opposite is a word which – generally speaking – has the opposite meaning to another word. For example, the following are antonyms: big ↔ small fat ↔ thin tall ↔ short old ↔ young male ↔ female Some words will have more than one antonym...
by sheila_admin | Jun 16, 2012 | Sentence Structure
A sentence is a group of words beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop/period, exclamation mark or question mark. It is the written equivalent of an utterance. My name is Conan. We won! Is July going to be hot here? Sentence Types There are a...
by sheila_admin | Jun 16, 2012 | How To Teach English, Vocabulary & Spelling
False Friends are pairs of words or phrases in two different languages which look and/or sound similar but which have very different meanings. False Friends are sometimes known as False Cognates. Learners will often assume the corresponding word or phrase in the...