GuruEAP
Academic English not only for Indonesians
Comparing crash landings!
In this post we take a look at some nice language comparing two crash landings in which all passengers and crew survived! (full news story here). (more…)
Unlike cheese
Physical stores are faced with additional running costs. Different with online stores that can operate on a small budget.
Contrasting while and meanwhile for contrast
The amount of time children spent watching TV remained stable, meanwhile the amount of time they spent using computers increased dramatically.
In this post we contrast while and meanwhile in terms of grammatical usage and their usefulness as contrast signals.
Even though although, but however!
Although some experts say that public projects would be less attractive than private projects. However, the government can do something about this.
Both or both of?
Euthanasia may be a good solution for both of patients and their families.
Both/both of follows the same rule as some/some of, all/all of, most/most of, etc. (more…)
‘Compared to’ instead of ‘rather than’
Cities offer larger salaries to people rather than small towns.
Here the comparison is between ‘salaries’ and ‘small towns’. The writer is saying that cities offer people large salaries and do not offer them small towns. Hmm. I would be quite happy if someone gave me a small town! (more…)
As much uncountable as possible!
These days gadgets do not consume power as much as they used to.
This should read: (more…)
The same with as
I experience the same problems with you.
This is direct translation from Bahasa Indonesia (sama dengan). It’s not incorrect but I’m fairly certain it’s not what you mean! (more…)
Half-baked comparison
Some Asians have less difficulty in intercultural communication.
If your reader speaks Indonesian he will understand that you’re translating kurang. Other readers, however, will begin to ask themselves: (more…)