learnenglishthroughliterature.com https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Lesson #134: Improve Your Writing In English With Three Daily Exercises Lesson #135: Mini-Lesson Monday (Part 1): Clarifying Modal Verb Forms (‘Must’, ‘Must Have’ And ‘Should Have’) Through Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’ Lesson #135: Mini-Lesson Monday (Part 2): Clarifying Modal Verb Forms (‘Must’, ‘Must Have’ And ‘Should Have’) Through Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’ Lesson #136 (Part 1): Using Word Order For Emphasis In Advanced English Lesson #136 (Part 2): Using Word Order For Emphasis In Advanced English Lesson #137 (Part 1): Understanding The Differences Between ‘Borrow’ And ‘Lend’ (Through Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Woodlanders’) Lesson #137 (Part 2): Understanding The Differences Between ‘Borrow’ And ‘Lend’ (Through Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Woodlanders’) Lesson #138: Common Mistakes Corrected: Apostrophes, Possessive Pronouns And Possessive Apostrophes (It’s vs Its) Lesson #139: Mini-Lesson Monday (Part 1): All About The Unmissable Conjunction ‘And’ Lesson #139: Mini-Lesson Monday (Part 2): All About The Unmissable Conjunction ‘And’ Lesson #140 (Part 1): How To Correctly Identify And Position Adverbs Lesson #140 (Part 2): How To Correctly Identify And Position Adverbs Lesson #141 (Part 1): American Vs British Punctuation: How To Use American English Quotation Marks Lesson #141 (Part 2): American Vs British Punctuation: How To Use British English Quotation Marks Lesson #142: Improving Your English Expression By A Different Path Lesson #223: Avoiding confusion in your writing: 3 Punctuation Tips Lesson #224: Reflecting on Emily Bronte’s Poem ‘Plead for Me’ (including new vocabulary list) Lesson #225 (Part 1): Reviewing Expressions of Place and Movement (through Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’) Lesson #225 (Part 2): Reviewing Expressions of Place and Movement (through Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’) Lesson #226: Two simple rules to help pronounce words beginning with ‘c’ Lesson #227 (Part 1): ‘We are going’ cf. ‘We will go’: 2 constructions of the future tense Lesson #227 (Part 2): ‘We are going’ cf. ‘We will go’: 2 constructions of the future tense Lesson #228: The transformative power of adjectives – a look at Kingsley’s ‘Water Babies’ Lesson #229: Reading for Appreciation: ‘A Psalm of Life’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lesson #230 (Part 1): ‘To say’ vs ‘to tell’: What you need to report Direct and Indirect speeches accurately Lesson #230 (Part 2): ‘To say’ vs ‘to tell’: What you need to report Direct and Indirect speeches accurately Lesson #231: How two different tenses can be used together correctly in reported speech Lesson #232 (Part 1): Homographs in ‘Bleak House’: English words that are spelled the same but are not related Lesson #232 (Part 2): Homographs in ‘Bleak House’: English words that are spelled the same but are not related Lesson #233: ‘While’, ‘During’, ‘Meanwhile’, and Other Common Expressions of Simultaneity (Co-occurence) Lesson #234: ‘To own her for a Friend’ (Emily Dickinson) – Making English a part of your thinking Lesson #235 (Part 1): Being or Been? What you need to know about the present participle of ‘To Be’ Lesson #235 (Part 2): Being or Been? What you need to know about the present participle of ‘To Be’ Lesson #236: Three Ways To Use ‘Been’, The Past Participle Of ‘To Be’ Lesson #237 (Part 1): ‘To what extent?’ Adverbs that modify Adjectives Lesson #237 (Part 2): ‘To what extent?’ Adverbs that modify Adjectives Lesson #238: The differences between Sometimes vs Some Time, Anytime vs Any Time, Overtime vs Over Time Lesson #239: Connecting with the past through memories: Thomas Hood’s famous poem ‘I Remember, I Remember’ Lesson #240 (Part 1): How to fix the most common punctuation mistake in English Lesson #240 (Part 2): How to fix the most common punctuation mistake in English Lesson #241: ‘Each other’ vs ‘one another’ through George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’ Lesson #242 (Part 1): 12 Pairs of Antonyms and Synonyms through Hodgson Burnett’s Children’s Classic Lesson #242 (Part 2): 12 Pairs of Antonyms and Synonyms through Hodgson Burnett’s Children’s Classic Lesson #243: Observations on How Austen Reported Speech (Free Indirect Speech in ‘Emma’) Lesson #244: ‘We should be kind while there is still time’: Reflecting on Philip Larkin’s Poem ‘The Mower’ Summer update Lesson #251: September 2021 – A season to remember? (and 3 tips on how to improve your English in one semester) Lesson #252: ‘The best master in the world’: Considering different learning & teaching methods through Dickens’ ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’ Short Lessons