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An idiom/idiomatic expression is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning conven...

British English and American English are different in matters of spelling, pronunciation, grammar, s...

A words family is a group of words that share the same root to which different prefixes and suffixes...

A determiner is a particular word used in a noun phrase to identify the number and the gender of the...

The passive voice involves the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or...

Affixes are words added to the root of words in order to change their meaning or their nature. Then...

Words can be combined to form compound nouns. These are very common, and new combinations are invent...

The reported/indirect speech is used to communicate what someone else said, thought, or believed, bu...

A verbal phrase always consists of a main verb and its complements (modal verb, auxiliary, prefixes,...

A denotation is a translation of a sign particularly to its literal meaning, more or less like dicti...

A connotation is an idea that a word makes you think about in addition to its literal/primary meanin...

Suffixes are specific words or items placed at the end of another word (nouns, verbs, adjectives or...

Collocation refers to how words go together or form fixed relationships. A collocation is a specific...

An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word, in other words, an antonym is on...

A relative pronoun is a grammatical word that links a subordinate clause and the main clause. In add...