“Have Not Books”: When Grammar Is Correct — But Not Allowed

Real English. Real Thinking. Author’s Column by Tymur Levitin, founder of Start Language School by Tymur Levitin and Levitin Language School A Real Question from a Real Lesson One of my students once asked me a simple question: “Is it correct to say: Whose is that bag? Or is it wrong?” She told me her […]

Read this article in other languages:English version (original) |Ukrainian version |Russian version |German version At Levitin Language School, we don’t ask students to memorize rules. We ask them to understand why the rules make sense — and that changes everything. Let’s start with a simple question:Why is “a apples” wrong? You could say, “Because ‘a’ is used before consonant sounds and […]