Doubt

Luxurious and luxuriant are often confused, especially in marketing and promotional material. Luxurious means ‘very comfortable, elegant, and involving great expense’, as in a luxurious hotel, whereas luxuriant means ‘lush’, referring to vegetation, as in acres of luxuriant gardens. To speak of luxuriant comfort or luxuriant four-poster beds, for instance, would be considered incorrect by […]

Very often conditional clauses speculate about events in the future. Such clauses can be open or closed. In an open conditional the speaker expresses no opinion about whether the future event is likely to happen or not: If they succeed in that, Germany’s economy and its workers will be better off. (The writer has no […]