By Patrick Carpen: The Greatest Writer On Earth
The “th” sound in standard American and British English is made with the teeth between the tongue and a slight “blowing” sound. The “th” sound comes naturally to English Natives Continue Reading →
Sometime back, a video was being circulated around Facebook describing how European settlers in Australia brutally murdered the natives of that country. I forwarded the video to my Australian friend Continue Reading →
The following extract is based on a true incident which occurred during my travels through the Amazon Rain Forest. The primary objective of the lesson is to teach descriptive writing Continue Reading →
An American volunteer pilot and I were chatting some time back about the differences in pronunciations and accents in different regions of the earth. And we came to the conclusion Continue Reading →
The letter of application may be written for a wide variety of purposes. For example, a letter of application may be written by someone applying for a job or firearms Continue Reading →
The poem “Beclouded,” by Emily Dickinson, makes very good use of the personification. The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or Continue Reading →
English by Patrick Carpen: Welcome English by Patrick Carpen was designed not just to teach English, but also to inspire a love of English Language and Literature on the impressionable Continue Reading →
English by Patrick Carpen: The Difference Today, there are so many mass-produced websites out there, filled with slabber-dash, user-generated, ambiguous and sometimes highly inaccurate content, that it would seem like Continue Reading →
When I was in primary school, our grade 4 teacher, Miss Roxanne Pestano, would often upbraid us, “round your mouth and pronounce your words properly.” That is, the word is Continue Reading →