For English language learners, mastering idioms is vital for academic and professional success. Proficiency exams like IELTS and TOEFL assess idiom comprehension, recognising it as a sign of advanced ...

Here’s my favorite sentence: “Aren’t I?” In recent months, I’ve trotted it out half a dozen times to end an argument about grammar. It works. Better than any other sentence I know, “Aren’t I?” ...

The English language is old. Like, really old. It’s old enough that its speakers use a good many idiomatic sayings that were thought up decades or even centuries ago, and that use words people don’t ...