Tutoring English, grammar is Queen. The tutor talks about “different from” and “different than.” I recall my mother’s always correcting the combination different than, saying it should instead be different from. Yet, I’ve seen different than in an English textbook. …
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Tutoring English, new words – especially plain ones – are always interesting. The tutor mentions kerning. kerning: the space between adjacent letters in a word. Source: Carey, Patrick. New Perspectives on HTML, CSS, and Dynamic HTML. Boston: Course Technology, 2013
Tutoring English, homonyms, homophones, or whatever you might call them, are a favourite topic. boulder: a rock at least 10.1 inches long. bolder: less fearful Source: encylopedia.com
Self-tutoring about poetic English: the tutor mentions a find. . A bird can alight on a branch, or light on it. Either way, the bird settles on the branch. Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Tutoring English, new words – especially short ones – are always interesting. The tutor mentions irrupt. irrupt (verb): to suddenly arrive, or else increase. A population can irrupt, for instance. Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, …
Tutoring English, unfamiliar words can surface – or less familiar uses of common ones. initiate (noun): someone accepted into a group, perhaps in a ceremonial manner. Source: Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English. Don Mills: Oxford …
Self-tutoring about English: the tutor reminisces, mentioning the term “minder”. When I was a kid, I used to watch a British TV show called Minder. I’d say it wasn’t a comedy, yet was very funny. It was about a small-time …
Tutoring English, vocabulary evolves. The tutor mentions liminal. liminal (adj): occurring at a boundary, possibly straddling it. Source: dictionary.cambridge.org
Tutoring English, new vocabulary continually surfaces. The tutor mentions saltbox. saltbox: a house two storeys in front, but one in back. In pioneer times, the rear, one-storey section could be an add-on that developed from extending the roof back and …
Tutoring English, discoveries continue. The tutor mentions exurb. exurb: a town outside a larger city, located past its suburbs. Source: Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.