In this episode we will discover how English users indicate negative meanings. One of the ways we can do that is with the word not. Hello. I’m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS ...

Let me explain this with a sentence, "I am a Japanese." "I" is WATASHI, and "a Japanese" is NIHON-JIN. So, "I'm a Japanese" is WATASHI WA NIHON-JIN DESU. To make a sentence ending with DESU into a ...

A question from Kypros in the UK: Why is it that many English people use a negative construction in the following example when a positive meaning is meant? For instance: Hello. Thank you for writing ...