This website will help you identify, understand why, and correct the small mistakes in your English that you make. Those pesky little mistakes that spoil your speaking, annoy your listener, and upset the flow of an otherwise glorious piece of prose. Those mistakes that auto-correction tools miss or those mistakes they insist are correct but aren’t. If you know what is right and what is wrong you won’t need to rely on the unreliable. You will be able to rely on yourself.
Here is a wee tour of what you will find on the website and where you will find it.
On every page there is a search box, under which you will see two green buttons. When you click the Common Mistakes FAQs button you will be whisked to a page containing almost limitless knowledge. On this page there is a list of more than 200 of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) by students of English, with my answers. Browse this page and become wiser.
Next to the Common Mistakes FAQs button is the Quizzes & Courses button. Click this and you will be transported to a page containing, rather unsurprisingly, quizzes and mini courses. There are quizzes and mini courses for grammar, for punctuation, for irregular verbs, for confused words, and for more.
Next up is 1-1 Lessons. Here you will find all you need to know about taking private 1-1 lessons with me. All the websites on the internet combined with all the apps on your phone cannot replace a good teacher.
Mini English Courses is where I have brought together all the common mistakes made by students on a particular subject. For example, if you make mistakes using adverbs open the Adverbs Mini Course. You will then find all the stuff on my website connected with correcting mistakes with adverbs. Each course ends with a quiz. The same with adjectives, articles, punctuation, etc.
Common Mistakes is where you will find all the most common mistakes divided into categories for you to study at your leisure.
If you click on How to Use This Website you will find some practical advice on how you can use this website to help improve your English.
The Library contains a list of English Grammar Terms, a list of English Irregular Verbs, a list of English Punctuation Terms and a collection of Vocabulary Video Lessons. I know that I am biased, but I strongly recommend bookmarking my Irregular Verbs List. Finding the correct form of an irregular verb is so easy using the search box at the top of the page.
Finally, if you are a member of LinkedIn then I would welcome a connection request from you. Here you can find my LinkedIn profile. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of that page you will find recommendations from my former students of my 1-1 lessons.
When I am not teaching or writing for this website I am Liverpool FC fan, lover, dog owner, master chef, wine quaffer, beer drinker, reader of literature, hedonist, capitalist, cyclist, world traveller, website creator, bon viveur, casual hero, storyteller, raconteur, funny guy, fighter of good causes, defender of beliefs, chandelier cleaner and in my spare time a philosopher. I also wrestle bears, solve puzzles, fly test planes and rescue women in distress.
In short, I am a living legend.
