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/
by Liz Walter According to the Cambridge International Corpus, we use the word way 848 times in every million words, making it extremely common (by contrast, method comes up 65 times per million...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2022/12/21/is-this-the-way-using-the-word-way-1/
by Liz Walter My last post looked at the basic building blocks of first, second and third conditionals. This post gives a little bit more detail about common variations we can use. Firstly, ther...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2022/02/02/unless-you-leave-now-using-conditionals-2/
by Liz Walter We use conditional sentences to talk about what will, might or could happen in various circumstances. There are three main conditionals which we call first, second and third. This ...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2022/01/19/if-i-had-a-million-dollars-using-conditionals-1/
by Liz Walter My last post introduced the topic of adding words to uncountable nouns so that they can be used in a countable way. In that post, I concentrated on food words. Today, we will look a...
by Liz Walter You probably already know that you can use many uncountable nouns in a countable way with words such as piece or bit: I ate a small piece of cheese. Why don’t you add a bit of cre...
by Kate Woodford Many of you are still confined to your homes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Studying or working on your own can be tough. We at Cambridge Dictionary are also working re...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2020/05/06/learning-new-words-from-home/
by Liz Walter English has several ways of talking about the past, and it can often be difficult to decide which one to use. In this post, I am going to look at three very common past forms: the ...
by Liz Walter Last month I wrote about how to form comparatives and superlatives. However, there are many occasions when we don’t simply want to say that one person or thing has more or less o...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2018/06/06/its-nowhere-near-as-good-modifying-comparisons/