Today’s Lesson draws on one of Sir Walter Scott’s most beloved works, the medieval romance Ivanhoe (1819). Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish novelist who
📘 “But it is not merely this affair,” she continued, “on which my dislike is founded. Long before it had taken place, my opinion of
Many students have struggled with understanding the differences between two essential adverbs: gradually and eventually. So in this Lesson I will try to define each
Have you ever struggled with knowing exactly when to use the words ‘probably’, ‘possibly’, ‘maybe’, or ‘perhaps’? In this Lesson we will look at all
As we saw in the first part of this Lesson, Samuel Johnson spent nearly ten years working on his dictionary. Our next dictionary-writer (or lexicographer), Noah Webster, probably
If every English language student has one book in common, it is almost certainly an English dictionary! The question would be: which one to choose?
One theme that often appears in English literature – novels and poetry – is that of a lost paradise. Christina Rossetti, one of the major
When I choose a novel to read, I tend to like books that have social morality or human motivation as some of their themes or
📙 ‘He and his family had been weary when they arrived the night before, and they had observed but little of the place; so that