Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Today’s post is about words we use for fastening and unfastening things. The verbs fasten and attach are very general. It doesn’t m...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/04/17/talking-about-fastening-things-together/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Here in the UK we are well into our spring season, which made me think about the words and phrases we use to describe the plants that a...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/04/03/talking-about-plants/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter We often need to keep our minds fixed on the things we are doing, and this post looks at ways of talking about this. Regular readers kn...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/03/20/talking-about-concentration/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter In my last post, I discussed the importance of learning verb patterns. In this post, I will look at a few slightly more advanced points...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/03/06/avoiding-common-mistakes-with-verb-patterns-2/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Look at these two English sentences: I agreed to pay for the damage. He denied stealing the money. You will see that each sentence has ...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/02/21/infinitive-or-ing-verb/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter For most of us, stress is unfortunately a part of modern life. Today’s post is about words and phrases we use to talk about the exper...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/02/07/talking-about-stress/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Back in 2016, my colleague Kate Woodford wrote a pair of posts on ways of describing good and bad things. However, sometimes things are...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/01/17/things-that-arent-very-good-or-very-bad/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter In my last post, I wrote about verbs that describe circular movements. I’m staying with the theme of movement today and looking at sh...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/01/03/more-verbs-to-describe-movement/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter This week’s post looks at the topic of circular movements. It is quite surprising how many verbs we have to describe different ways o...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2023/12/20/verbs-for-circular-movements/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Sustainability is one of the most important goals of our time. With environmentalists meeting in Dubai for the COP28 conference, this p...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2023/12/06/talking-about-sustainability/