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It doesn’t sound like a real sentence, but as of this month, it is... at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The slang is among hundreds of new entries in the respected dictionary ...

Apart from the more than eight literal meanings which the Oxford Advanced Learner’s English dictionary confers on AND, that word has a deep structure that seems to suggest that we are getting ...

From obscure phrases to tongue twisters, the English language can be a mystery even to its native speakers. Despite it being approximately 1400 years old, the language is constantly evolving with ...

Check and improve your grammar with our advanced grammar reference guide. On this page you'll find links to our advanced grammar summary pages. Each advanced grammar reference page covers a key ...

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Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik, Vol. 2021, Issue. 74, p. 143. Phraseology is often thought of as an anomaly and a headache for language learners. However, researchers have tended to focus on ...

In a world where a virus has affected almost everything we do – the Oxford Languages Word of the Year 2021 will probably come as a surprise to no one. As people start to find their “new normal ...

a) Advanced learners often automatically invert the subject and auxiliary verb after a WH word clause, as if it were a question. However these WH clauses are the same as normal sentences so the ...