Michelle Finlay

Stationery/Stationary Paper and envelopes/Remain still

and if we see the same mistake over and over again, we begin to see it as acceptable

‘Someone has mislaid top-secret papers.

speak or write good English – plain, lucid, jargon-free English – to have mastery of the language, is to have style.

Some nouns remain the same whether they are being used in the singular or in the plural: deer, fish, jeans, scissors, sheep, species, wheat,

non-count, uncountable or mass nouns which do not take a singular or a plural. They cannot be measured by number. Examples of these include water, evidence, happiness, rice

In order to give a quantity for these we have to say much, some, a lot of, a cupful

Paparazzi is already a plural in Italian

seem to have accepted that two cappuccinos is the order of the day.

This tense is used for an action that took place at a specific time: ‘I walked there this morning.’