Recently I encountered a book written by F. R. Palmer, Modality and the English Modals. I found this book very enligtening. To my surprise, his thorough treatment covers most of my questions on modal verbs in ELL. Palmer knew well what would confuse language learners, even native speakers and too...

Despite their outward appearance, our Language sites are still predominantly English-language sites. There's a strong component of "learning the language" and the entire interface and support material is in English. Full immersion is the best way to learn a language, so posts are simply conducted...

Here is my rule of thumb: live is only pronounced /lɪv/ (or your "liv") when it's a verb. In all other cases it's /laɪv/ (or your "laiv"). You can remember this sentence, which rhymes: Live music makes me feel alive! PS. A careful reader may prefer to use another, but similar, rule of thumb:...

This that in your sentences is an adverb, and it's mainly spoken. Usually, you can understand it as so or very. So the meanings of your sentences with and without that are not quite the same. It's not easy. -- This simply means that it's not easy. It's not that easy. -- This means that it...

I have an ELL question; but the Stack Exchange format obliges me to write a title not shorter than 15 characters and not longer than 150 characters. So, how do I write a good title? Link to the main answer and Link to the TL;DR version for your ease of use.

folks. I would like to get your help. Please accept me as your obedient student. I wonder what the sentence mean. Below is the sentence which is from a computer programming book about programming language LISP. "Lisp has attracted some of the brightest minds in the history of computer science."...

Can you please explain this quote to me "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts i want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"You know wnat?" and "Guess what" are patronising American phrases which are coming into frequent use here in the UK. They are mainly used by loud mouths who think they know it all, and are deigning to tell you what you may be too dim to understand. They state their opinions as irrefutable facts,...

I really get confused when to use 'say' and when to use 'tell'. Which is appropriate of the fallowing What did he tell?/What did he say? What are you saying? / What are you telling?

As per google meaning I understood like, Anyone - any person or any people Anybody - anyone It seems both are relevant. I am trying to understand the proper place for using these words. Please help me. Thanks in Advance.