"Please open," said the dentist, and these words gave me something to think about during the uncomfortable moments of oral inspection that followed. Because what she actually said was 開いてください (Aite ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

Both Zbyszek from Poland and Iqbal Ahmad from Pakistan write that they find it difficult to differentiate between transitive and intransitive verbs: 'Please explain the difference and give us some ...