February 2022

Lesson #280: George Eliot’s Silas Marner and Some Tricky Prepositions of Time (‘in the’, ‘at’, ‘on’)

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📙 The old man, contrary to expectation, seemed to be on the way to recovery, when one night Silas, sitting up by his bedside, observed that his usual audible breathing had ceased. – George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861) How would you describe something dramatic and memorable that happened to you ‘one night’, as happened to […]

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Lesson #279: ‘That tall, proud man’ – ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (Austen) and Adjective Word Order in English

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The book was interesting and it was old and it was long and it was a French book too. This is a very odd sentence! ❔ Do you know how it could be improved? In a nutshell (in a few words), we could replace all the ‘and it was’ phrases with commas. So we would

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