You and You're ( Courtesy of the Grammar-Monster)
You're and Your Some writers are confused by you're and your. A mistake involving these constitutes a grammatical howler. You're You're...
Fostering Creative Writing Skills - part 1
With a move by exam boards in the UK back to assessing skills in English in terms of grammar, spelling and syntax I am going to be...
NEW WRITING COURSE BASED ON UNDERSTANDING
I have added another service, highlighted on the website, focusing on improving a student's standard of written English. This feature...
A SERVICE FOR ALL AGES
King of the Queen's English is a service aimed at the student of English of any age and of any nationality. This may, for example,...
The World is full of Cliches
More and more we have become a nation that attaches itself to popular cliches and "in" terminology and by that I mean that too many...
Life in the United Kingdom Test
With an increasing emphasis on the Life in the UK Test, the essential British citizenship test, there is a perceived increase in demand...
Perfection can never be achieved.
What is perfection and can it be achieved? Painters, writers, sculptors, designers, composers. It is most unlikely that any artist will...
To write well, you should first read well.
I have been listening to an extraordinarily good interview this week with the acclaimed writer, Junot Diaz, on the BBC World Service...
The Importance of well-constructed writing.
For some time in the United Kingdom, employers receiving hundreds of applications for a limited number of jobs have criticised the...
Do we always write English as we speak it?
Not always so! When we write English we are mindful that there are certain rules which have to be observed. There are rules, of course,...