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Let’s go green! Welcome back for another writing challenge. This month I’d like you to write something about a blissful place. No, I’m not talking about your travel or recent vacation, but it’s much appealing than you think – a garden! Do you have one? Mine is a bit disorganized that’s why I’d like to challenge you to share about your garden or plants that you’ve been taking care of recently. We could find some inspiration and new ideas that’d be useful to fellow plant lovers. Moreover, it’s a g

Yes, I mean 'You're completely right' by 'You're quite right'. 

The word 'quite' has two meanings: with 'gradable' words, it means 'fairly', 'rather' or 'very'; with 'non-gradable' words, it means 'completely' or 'absolutely'.

In other words, you can use 'quite' to emphasize that something is completely the case. You can say 'I'm quite sure', 'It's quite impossible', or 'That's quite amazing'. 

So, if I say 'I quite agree with you', I mean 'I agree with you completely', but you may not be that happ

HONE YOUR POETIC SKILL! :)

[NEW EDITED] Everybody has a feeling. If you pour it into poetry, it may become some wonderful thoughts for others. Whether you’re experienced or not, whether you’re skilled in poetry or not, please ignore and let’s try to make a poem. So, here is the challenge :)

1. Choose ONLY ONE of the ‘words’ from the Guess My Word’s game written below. You can repeat the word or improve with the some parts of speech of the word in your poem.
2. Make at least 4 lines of poem includes the w

Yes, you can use the past progressive/continuous or past simple tense to make a request or suggestion sound more polite, for example, you can say "I was wondering/I wondered if you could comment on my blog", instead of saying "You should try to comment on my blog". 

In addition to 'I was wondering/I wondered', you could use 'I was hoping', 'I was thinking' or 'I thought' instead of 'I hope' or 'I think' to express politeness. That is to say, the past simple or progressive tense can have present o

Certainly, you’ve been a guest once, twice or multiple times in your life to an event, as mankind wants to celebrate almost every memorable moments under the sun, wedding, graduation, feast, birthdays, baptismal, death day… etc. etc. Have you noticed something? Look around you; can you imagine all corners of that venue? How does it look like? Is it well pleasing? Appropriately designed? The ambiance of the area fits the concept of the celebration? For sure it does! Well, the particular event was

There are many ways to say goodbye: bye, see you, catch you later, so long, have a nice day, take care, cheers, and so on. 

It can be so tricky, however, for a doctor, especially for a Chinese doctor,  to say goodbye to a patient. As you know, 'goodbye' in Chinese just sounds like 'see you or see you around'. The thing is nobody really wants to be sick again - in other words, they don't want to see their doctor again, but the doctor and patient may feel like saying something when they are leaving

Welcome to my first ever writing challenge! I’ve been a fan of this activity since the day I became a member of our club as well as joined to countless of its versions. Many members have shown their initiative by coming up different topics to join with and improve our writing skills in a fun and engaging ways. It would be unfair as your video moderator if I’m not going to share a slice of my cake with you.

If my memory serves me right, we had this type of challenge before, but that was ages ago.

Yes, 'managed to do something' means 'succeeded in doing somthing, especially something difficult'. If you say "I managed to write a blog yesterday", you mean you succeeded in writing a blog or were able to write a blog yesterday. 

You can't say "I could write a blog yesterday", though, because  'could' is not used to talk about particular ability in the past (on one occasion).

You can say, however,  "I could eat a whole cake when I was little" - 'could' can be used for general ability in the past

Yes, you can say "English is easy to learn." or "It's easy for us to learn English.", but you don't say "We are easy to learn or learn English."

You can use this structure if the subject of the sentence is also the object of the infinitive. So, you can say "He is easy to please." or "The book is difficult to read."

The adjective 'impossible' can be so tricky too, for example, you don't say "She is impossible to do that" - because 'she' is also the subject of the infinitive 'to do'. 

I hope I've mad

My dear friends! I know you all like posting blogs sending some positive meaningful messages. So, I propose you to train here. It is not that easy to write a good parable or a fable. First, it should be laconic but each phrase must be very meaningful. Like any story, it should have a plot, a culmination and, in this genre, some conclusion, moral and it is the main. In any fable or parable the last sentence is the most principle. Sure, you can retell the stories you know or write your own and it

I've recently been working in a consulting room - in the VIP outpatient clinic of a hospital in China. Most of the patients in the VIP clinic are from other countries and can't speak Chinese. Thankfully, most of them speak English and bring a smartphone - that really helps.

Usually, patients have already searched their symptoms on the Internet with their smartphone before they go to see a doctor. That is, they'll go to hospital with in mind all of the relative medical English terms or terminologi

Yes, 'no doubt' ('probably') means you assume that something is true or likely to happen - it sounds like 'I suppose', for example, 'No doubt Expector will give us another blog challenge soon.'

If you want to say something is certainly or definitely true, you use 'there is no doubt that'. You can say 'There is no doubt that your English has improved.' 

You can also use 'without (any) doubt' ('absoulately certain') to emphasize that something is true, for example, 'MyEC is without doubt the best En

Hi, my friends! I have promised you to start a new challenge where you will be able to write your stories using your own vocabularies. So, here you are! After reading all your comments to my previous blog I decided to give you an opportunity of trying yourselves in two ganres: SCI-FI and TRILL/HORRORS. Here are the rules:

1. Each of you can write a story in both ganres.

2. The word limit is 200 words.

3. You vocabulary is unlimited.

4. All stories within the word limit will be corrected.

When you are

Phraseology can be defined as the way a particular group of people uses words or phrases. In linguistics, phraseology can be defined as the study of set or fixed expressions, i.e. idioms, and phrasal verbs, which are collectively referred to as phrasemes, in which the major wording of the expression takes on another deeper meaning that would not have been predictable if the words were used independently. These are some of the English phraseologies and the stories behind them.

1. Pull someone’s le

Warning:The following article contains material that is too fake, viewer discretion is advised.

Having been living in the smog for more than 100 years, people in the planet finally found the truth that the smog was an invaluable possession human donated to the earth. There are many ways of taking advantage of the smog proved to be practical and necessary.

First, date in the smog is very helpful to accelerate the process of getting close. Recent research shows that when the figure of PM 2.5 exceeds

English is the most widely spoken language in the entire world. However, it is also challenging to learn, especially for foreign learners. The difficulty learners have depends on language or languages they know. English is easier to learn if a person already speaks a language with the same roots. Here we look at 5 difficulties English poses to those learning it as a foreign language and how they can fight these issues.

There Are Many Variations of English

English is a challenging language because

Hi Guys,

what about to take some funny challenge? Well, let's test our sense of humour and try to make up some cool, hillarious posts! Are you up to it??? I will give you eight words and your (maybe also mine) task will be to use them in your blog:

Here are the words:

1. dead body

2. diaper

3. lost

4. hairy chest

5. sleeping pills

6. dancing

7. lipstick

8. palm (tree)

Please, try to come up with your funny stories, nothing too long, I think 100 words is enough and let´s laugh together and extend our life!

Yes, it's a common mistake to link two independent clauses with a comma. That is called 'comma splice' or 'comma fault'.

You can use a period/full stop, a semicolon, or a comma with a coordinating conjunction to connect two independent clauses:

(comma splice/fault) "I went for a walk, she cooked a meal."

(correct) "I went for a walk. She cooked a meal."

(correct) "I went for a walk; she cooked a meal."

(correct) "I went for a walk, and she cooked a meal."

(correct) "When I went for a walk, she cooked

It is wrong to think that one can write English by mastering a few rules of grammar. Rules of grammar do count, but they are not the whole. Thus, it's possible that one may write English which may be grammatically correct but may not be good English. Perspicuity or lucidity is the first requisite of a good style.

Most learners labour under the misunderstanding that the only English worth writing is the English overloaded with difficult words and phrases. They prefer long and high-sounding words

Not so happy for waking up early in the morning? After reading newspaper are you frustrated? Really at present the all newspapers are so busy to publish negative news. War, corruption, rape, robbery, murder is every pages is newspapers. So you have rights to be unhappy in the morning. How will be happy? May be for whole night there was not available electricity. You have sweated all the night for hot weather. You are so angry from morning. What to do now?  Take a cup of tea and ignore everything