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♪♩♫ Joy to the world 
The Lord is come… ♫♩♪
Wait, wait. The Lord is come? Isn’t there something wrong? First, we know that come cannot be in the passive voice here, as come is an intransitive verb, it does not have an object, which basically means it cannot have a passive form. On the other hand, if it was in [...]

In English, we can use a number of prefixes on adjectives to form their opposites. The following pairs come to mind as examples:

typical
atypical

hydrous
anhydrous

social
antisocial

honest
dishonest

legal
illegal

possible
impossible

active
inactive

regular
irregular

existent
nonexistent

kind
unkind

In most cases, these prefixes are not interchangeable, so we do not have *unlegal or *apossible, for instance. Of course, fluent speakers have no problem in using the right prefix for the right [...]

Yesterday I had private lessons with two students who were in form 6 and 7 respectively, and were thus reasonably advanced learners. Nevertheless, both students failed to distinguish between the meanings of even though and even if when they encountered them in an article. Therefore, I think it is justified to create a new category [...]

“Able was I ere, I saw Elba.” - Napolean
Poetic as it may sound, “able was I ere” is not a sentence we may normally use, even if we forgive the archaism of the expression. When you introduce yourself to someone, it is customary to say ”My name is Thomas” rather than “Thomas is my name”. [...]