Imagine that you’ve just finished a huge project at your job, and now it’s time to take a vacation. Your boss smiles and wishes you well on your holiday, then she says, “You deserve it!” But how can you respond when someone wishes you well, and how should you respond to “You deserve it?” The …
The Backstreet Boys told us, “What makes you different, makes you beautiful.” Christina Aguilera said, “You are beautiful, no matter what they say.” With so much positivity, can anyone be absolutely beautiful? It is correct to say “absolutely beautiful.” The adverb “absolutely” means completely and totally. “Beautiful” is an adjective that refers to someone very …
Most of us understand the basics of past, present, and future tense. Tenses help show when an event took place. And sometimes, you may need to use more than one tense in a single sentence. Present perfect tense and past perfect tense can be used in the same sentence. Present perfect indicates something that happened …
In the English language, it is important to understand the proper use of the perfect tenses. For example, when we try to talk about an action that occurred for some time and was ongoing, is it “has been” or “had been”? “Has been” is only used with third-person nouns or pronouns to indicate an action …
Happiness is an emotion everybody experiences and compares amongst themselves. However, just like every other word in the English language, there are rules for using variants of the adjective “happy” — for instance, is it “happier” or “more happy”? “Happier” is the most common spelling for the comparative form of the adjective “happy.” When an …
Learning to communicate the appropriate emotion through language isn’t as easy as one might think. Of course, you naturally want to maintain the appropriate tone, but no one wants to appear cold or grammatically blind in their interactions. Still, is it correct to say, “Thank you very much?” Saying “Thank you very much” is a …