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Boom! Crunch! Pop! Onomato . . . what? Hard to spell but easy to use, an onomatopoeia (ahn-uh-mat-uh-PEE-uh) is a word t...

What’s an Idiom? Broadly speaking, an idiom is a widely used phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a particular meaning ...

Whom should be used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition. When in doubt, try this simple trick: If you can repl...

For the third day of LitMas, we’re offering you three French phrases English speakers love to borrow. There’s something kin...

First and firstly are both ordinal (or ordering) adverbs that English speakers and writers use to enumerate related point...

People use both further and farther to mean “more distant.” However, American English speakers favor farther for physica...

Any Google News search for “political correctness” will yield three general groups of results: pieces slamming one public f...

Reflexive pronouns are words ending in -self or -selves that are used when the subject and the object of a sentence are t...

What do you call those tiny pictures we all use in texts and chats? Do you opt for the Japanese-inspired “emoji” or the Eng...

by Laura K. Lawless, writer at eLearnEnglishLanguage.com Everyone makes mistakes when writing, sometimes due to simple typ...