16 February 2024

Advanced Vocabulary : er, who does that?

The easiest way of saying who does what in English is to add "-er" to the verb thus talk > talker. Of course, this is not the only way. Variants and exceptions abound, traps lie in wait and sometimes competing and commons forms from the same origin mean completely different things.

Join us as we review ers, ians, ists, ranks and nouns who do, and why you must never confuse an exhibitor with an exhibitionist. 

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