By:  Jack Osborne

If someone says  English is an easy language they're not right or write. They’re wrong. English is a tough language to speak, read and write.

English has words like “right” and “write” (and also “wright” and “rite”). How can all of these words be spelled differently, mean different things and still be pronounced exactly the same? Words like these are homonyms.

This is difficult enough if you are a native speaker of English. If you were born in an English-speaking country, do you even know what a “wright” is? But, if English is your second language your eyes are probably glazing over.

By:  Jack Osborne

We all know a sentence is a collection of words. But, what purposes do the words serve?

Nouns and verbs are the substance of a sentence. Simply put, nouns are persons, places and things. The subject of a sentence is a noun. Verbs are all about action, a state of being, or the relation between two things. In the sentence “The boy caught the ball,” the words “boy” and “ball” are both nouns because “boy” is a person and “ball” is a thing.

by Disinfect Your Mind

Here is a simple exercise you can use to dramatically improve your grammar skills.

A bit of theory

When speaking or writing, we use our grammar skills to compose understandable sentences and express them correctly either in sounds or on paper. How do we do that? Well, there are the rules we learned at school, right? Not exactly.

by imarket

The rules of English grammar are varied, in addition many ordinances have exceptions. This is what makes the English language so trying to learn, as it is one of the few languages that have so numerous different regulations plus so many exceptions to those rules. If you are learning English, you should take the time to learn as many of the basic, important ordinances as you can.