January 2022

Lesson #278: ‘All Impatience To Be Off …’: 7 Negative Prefixes in Gaskell’s ‘Cousin Phillis’ (1864)

Have you heard of negative prefixes in English before? 🧐 👩‍🏫 While the grammatical term is a bit of a mouthful, they are nothing to worry about. In fact, they are useful little syllables that we place at the beginning of a word (a noun, adjective, adverb, or verb) to indicate that its meaning has […]

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Lesson #277: Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) and The Value of Repetition

If you have been learning English for some time, you may have listened to speeches given by politicians, actors, or artists. A common trope (literary or artistic feature) you will notice in such speeches is that of repetition – the repetition of some words or phrases for effect. English literature also has plenty of examples

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