Joanne Reilly 
English Academy
 

Few or a few? Little or a little? What's the difference you might ask? Let's start with few and little. Few is used with countable nouns,...

This is something that I hear people getting mixed up quite often, so I decided to look into the rules for when to use little and when to...

As well as using in, on or at to talk about location (see below for my earlier posts) we can add  'of'' for some more advanced language!...

We use the words this, that, these and those to indicate, to point to, or to refer to things that are usually in our immediate...

Paraphrasing a question shows the examiner that you have understood it and that you have a good range of vocabulary. It also helps you to...

Surely they both mean the same thing don't they? Does the apostrophe really matter? Its Shows ownership of something and is used when...

Is Granny sitting by the fire or beside the fire? She is actually doing both since in many cases by and beside can be used...

When producing a piece of written work for college or a report for your boss it is good practice not to repeat the same word too many...

I often hear people say that they have made a photograph of something, but a native speaker would say they had taken a photograph. We...

'Must' is a word that I often hear over used. My advice is to try and use it as little as possible. Instead, use 'have to'. Why is that?...

You can improve the quality of your business emails and communication by using transition words to link two sentences together. There are...

Do you ever find you have a lot to say about something, but can't find the right words to give your presentation, report or email some...

When you deliver a presentation you will often need to talk through the data on the screen. This can either be in a the form of a table,...

Talking about data can be useful, but depicting it with a chart is invaluable. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and using a...

Do you ever have to give presentations or write formal reports? Quite often the audience for these is someone who doesn't have as much...

I'm sure you've heard this expression before in movies and song lyrics, but what about him, himself and he or her, herself and she?...

Have you ever been asked a question but are unsure of exactly what you are being asked to do? In person this is easy to resolve since you...

Whose is this? How do you show whether something belongs to you or to someone else? This grid provides a quick reference, scroll down for...

These prepositions are used to indicate that an event, which is true now, has been taking place for a period of time. We have to be...

This is a question I was asked recently and it got me thinking. They both mean in spite of or despite a given situation something...