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What is the difference between a TV series and a serial? Is one merely a subset of the other? Perhaps the difference is largely semantic. Or...

KINDERGARTEN (in Australia and NZ often shortened to KINDER or KINDY) is where 5-year-old children are introduced to school and learn all ab...

AN ERRAND is a short trip to fulfill some small business. When you’re running errands, you’re making a bunch of these all at once. If you ru...

DOING CHORES means performing regular in-household tasks around the house or farm, which are often unpleasant but necessary. Washing the dis...

THE PERFECT INFINITIVE is used with WOULD LIKE/LOVE/PREFER and one or two other verbs to refer to unreal past situations; things that never ...

Phrasal verbs can have transparent and therefore literal meaning which can be easily deduced from its parts. Their meaning can be semi-­lite...

KEEP AT BAY and HOLD AT BAY are two renditions of an idiom that has been in use since the mid-1700s. "The government hopes to keep infl...