by Paul Parry | Jul 28, 2010 | English Language Articles
Invasion and occupation by the Romans (AD43 – AD410), the Anglo-Saxons (from north-western Europe, AD410 – AD800), the Vikings (800 – 1066) and William the Conqueror’s Normans (1066) all left their mark on Britain and its languages. In the...
by Paul Parry | Jul 28, 2010 | English Language Articles
Avoiding common mistakes when creating and submitting your résumé is both relatively simple and incredibly important. But research has shown that the internet encourages job-seekers to send out lazy, generic, ‘cut-and-paste’ résumés that are riddled with...
by Paul Parry | Jul 28, 2010 | English Language Articles
Johnson Wu, Gulzar Muhamed, Sivakumar Balasubramanian, Tahmina Hashmi and Qiangxiaohui are among the subscribers who requested guidance on improving their vocabulary, so here it is: Learning English can of course be a daunting task. But the best way to approach it is...
by Paul Parry | Jul 28, 2010 | English Language Articles
Comma , Here are some uses of commas: To separate elements in a series, for example, a three-part list (as in ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’). I never (or at least very rarely) use a comma just before a coordinating conjunction (and, but, etc...
by Paul Parry | Jul 28, 2010 | English Language Articles
This can be a particularly confusing area of the English language. But it is an area that you need to understand as best you can in order to make your writing – however formal or informal – as clear as possible. Without the correct punctuation, English is...
by Paul Parry | Jul 28, 2010 | English Language Articles
You’d be surprised by the number of people who would love to write something or have their work published but who actually do not sit down to write on a regular basis. They have lots of ideas, start something, don’t pursue it, then they move on to the next...
