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• Commented on How can you narrow your topic to a single spoke or to a sub-header spoke on a map? How does this type of prewriting activity prepare you for outlining?
  At one we stage we were getting the question posted frequently in the forum, which was why I put this here. Since then the question is very rarely asked, so the majority of the Axia College students are approaching their...
• Commented on A handout on irregular plural noun forms
  If the letter -Y comes after a consonant, then you make the plural with -IES. If it comes after a vowel, you simply add -S; trays, plays, etc....
• Commented on Changing Wh-questions with the be verb to indirect questions - a handout
  1) The question is 'Do you know...?' and you don't change the second verb into a question....
• Posted Getting Back to Normal to English (ESL) Weblog
  Things have been quiet in some areas of the site of late and we haven't added many new items.  Sadly, work has been squatting on our lives and eating into time normally spent updating the site....
• Commented on ESL & EFL Blacklists
  I am afraid that I will have to wait until the writ arrives before I am convinced- people who threaten to sue rarely do. I am not sure which of them you are referring to to, but they have both...
• Posted Twilocity to Tdol's English Language Blog
  I submitted a couple of pieces of writing to Twilocity, a site that reviews and checks MS Word documents by running the writing through some macros.  They were returned in a short time and the results were good.  The blurb...
• Commented on Rules for Comparisons
  Thanks for pointing it out. I have changed it....
• Commented on Idioms
  I hadn't heard it used, but the examples I have found seem to be using the 'whatever' meaning, like this one: dr: Of course it should be, but I trust you will agree that metaphorical logic ought ultimately to yield...
• Commented on Is it time to call a truce on 'less' + plural?
  I'm afraid that it largely depends on the view of the individual. Prescriptive grammarians will classify it as an error, and many do regard it as wrong. However, the usage is so common that the rule is, at best, unenforceable....
• Commented on Is collocation all it's cracked up to be?
  Amazon says it's available: http://www.usingenglish.com/amazon/us/0582257638.html...
• Commented on Endangered Languages
  Sites like Ethnologue ( http://www.ethnologue.com/ ) have already documented thousands of languages, so I don't see that including a few examples of each in a dictionary of an artificial language will achieve that much....
• Commented on Talking About Routines - a handout
  Thanks for letting us know, Gulzar. I have changed it....
• Commented on Noam Chomsky Talks About Universal Grammar [Video]
  He replied to a question I emailed him a couple of years ago....
• Commented on Exam help on UsingEnglish.com
  You can register with UsingEnglish.com and get full access to our forum and members' area by using the link below: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/register.php...
• Commented on English Idioms Update
  Try here for idioms: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/ and here to discuss them: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/english-idioms-sayings/...
• Commented on Taking a Bottom-up Approach to Learning and Teaching English
  I think it all depends solely on the quality of the individual native or non-native teacher, though the market does tend to favour the native speaker. However, your view of native speakers relying on intuition and not knowing the rules...
• Commented on New Phrasal Verbs Quizzes: Intransitive, Separable and Inseparable
  Don't try to memorise them in large numbers; do a few at a time. Choose ones that you have heard or read a few times; that way, you'll be choosing ones that are more likely to be useful to you....
• Commented on Mental Health, Abnormality and Labelling Theory
  Javad, You can register with UsingEnglish.com and get full access to our forum and members' area by using the link below: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/register.php...
• Posted Zotero to Tdol's English Language Blog
  For people using Firefox, there's a superb add-on Zotero to help you organise your research, create bibliographies, reference lists, etc, complete with a number of styles....
• Commented on Taking a Bottom-up Approach to Learning and Teaching English
  I will let him know about your message....
• Commented on A reflection on lesson planning for young learners
  Have a look here: http://www.usingenglish.com/links/Teaching_and_Teacher_Resources/Lesson_Plans_and_Worksheets/Young_Learners/index.html...
• Commented on Rollout Rollup
  Diriana, You can register with UsingEnglish.com and get full access to our forum and members' area by using the link below: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/register.php...
• Commented on Corporate English- London Underground
  Which blog?...
• Commented on Who will judge the ESL Judge?
  The thought of Sandy MacManus dispensing unbiased advice in tights brings tears to the eyes....
• Posted Who will judge the ESL Judge? to Tdol's English Language Blog
  ESLJudge claims to be a site that 'allows ESL schools and teachers to resolve disputes professionally and fairly', which is a laudable aim.  However, it certainly does not live up to its lofty aims and is unlikely ever to do...
• Posted Site Overview- 2007 to English (ESL) Weblog
  Since the end of 2004, we have recorded how many entries we have in some of the sections of our site, which means that we can see how much new content we have created since then. In 2007, we put...
• Posted Job Adverts in our Forum to Tdol's English Language Blog
  We will delete any ESL job adverts that appear in our forum. Our forum is for language discussions and not a free place to advertise jobs....
• Posted Teaching Christmas to English (ESL) Weblog
  We have added a number of lessons for different levels and articles about Christmas and how it can be taught and used in the classroom. There will be more to follow in the next few days, so please check the...
• Posted Lingro- a translation tool to Tdol's English Language Blog
  Lingro is a site that offers a useful translation tool. Enter the URL of a site or page, then choose the language you want to translate words into and you can click on the words you don't know and bring...
• Posted I am Spartacus to Tdol's English Language Blog
  Over at the TeflTrade blog, Sandy McManus has received another legal demand for material critical of a school to be taken down from his site. This time, his blog host received a letter alleging defamation from Mr Paul Lowe of...