Session 4 – DOs and DON’ts
Hi All! There are some correct and incorrect practices that writers in English use, that are clear-cut. We come across these all the time in our proofreading and editing work. a or an This is straightforward. You must use 'a' before a word that starts with a...
Session 3 – Common Errors and #Speechmarks
#Different and Various There seems to be a tendency to use the word 'different' all the time, when often 'various' would be better. Example 1: "Different people went to the concert: Here the author is trying to say that all kinds of people went to the concert. The...
Session 3 – Bits and Pieces
Here are some useful bits and pieces that will help you with getting your English perfect. Capitalisation There is a tendency amongst some authors to over-capitalise. When in doubt whether one should capitalise a word Google will give you the answer almost every time....
Busy Bee English – Session 2
English is full of annoying little rules that particularly plague new English students with different home languages. From time to time, I will just drop in a rule as it occurs to me, such as: Practice and Practise You must use practice when it is being used as a...
Session 1: Welcome to Busy Bee English
This course is very ‘Hands-on’ and straightforward. It will assist all who are trying to master or improve their English; from primary school level, all the way up to post-graduate university level. The complexity level starts at the very basics, e.g. verbs and nouns...