Very recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that “money doesn’t grow on trees” during his speech to the nation where he defended his economic reforms. If the popular saying is changed to “Monies ...

A noun is a thing, e.g. cat, room, exam. Most of the time, we can talk about how many of these things we have: Bobby has three cats at home! It’s amazing how many rooms are empty in our school. I have ...

I guess some users of the English language have what I will call ‘respect’ for certain words. So, whenever they are using the terms, they try to demonstrate this by all means. One easy way they do so ...

Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...

When we use an abstract uncountable noun to make a general statement, we don’t use the. When we use an abstract uncountable noun to refer to a specific example of a noun, we use the before the noun.

The question above emanated from some comments that greeted a recent observation by Lagos-based media executive, Bamidele Johnson. In a Facebook post, he had reminded his friends – and foes – that ...

量词 “fewer” 和 “less” 的含义相似，它们都可以用来谈论两个或两组事物中的一个或一组 “少一点，少一些”。什么时候用 “fewer”？什么时候用 “less”？“一分钟英语” 节目辨析这两个词被用来比较事物时的用法区别。 文字稿 Hi, I'm Sam from BBC Learning ...

一位听众来信询问限定词 “no” 和介词 “without” 后应跟名词单数还是复数。比如： “没有糖，不加糖” 的英语表达方式是 “no sugar” 还是 “no sugars”，还是两者均成立？当 “without” 的后面跟可数名词单数时，“without” 和这个名词之间是不是必须加冠词？