Bring home the bacon, be on cloud nine, a piece of cake... When translated literally, these phrases sound weird in other languages, right? But, what about their meaning when we [...]
Spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of [...]
In linguistics, prosody is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. Prosody may reflect various features of the speaker or the utterance: the emotional state of the speaker; the form [...]
Originality is the aspect of created or invented works by as being new or novel, and thus can be distinguished from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or derivative works. An original work [...]
Discovery of writing is widely assumed as the beginning of history. Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or [...]
We must always insert a semi-colon before and a comma after however to connect two independent clauses. Incorrect: Japan was an expanding giant however it could not generate enough capital [...]