Month: July 2011

When you ask for or give a description of someone or something, use what … like (NOT how): ‘What’s your new English teacher like?’ ‘This drawing gives you an idea…

Hopeless= without hope, because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success: ‘In an agony of hopeless grief’ Hopeless is usually used to describe a situation, not a…

Homework is an uncountable noun: ‘We’re given a lot of homework at the weekend.’ Homework = (1) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home); work that a teacher gives a…

Historic = (1) Belonging to the past; very important or famous in history: ‘a historic voyage’, ‘a historic decision’ (2) having a long history: ‘a historic tradition’, ‘a historic building’. Historical…

Use high to describe something that is a long way above the ground (or whose top is a long way above the ground): ‘The rooms on the ground floor have…

Hear= (1) Perceive (sound) by the auditory sense: ‘I heard a strange noise in the middle of the night.’  ‘Can you hear the signal?’ (2) To learn by hearing; be told…

Headache is a countable noun. Headache= (i) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness: ‘The noise of traffic is a constant headache for me.’ (ii) pain in…

Hardly =barely; scarcely; almost not: ‘It was hardly raining at all.’ ‘I could hardly believe my eyes.’ Hard= (1) with a lot of effort: ‘If you study hard, you will…