In British English 'at the weekend' is standard. In American English 'on the weekend' is more common. Both are correct but 'at' is preferred in formal contexts.
Some nouns have the same form for both singular and plural. 'Sheep' is one of them (one sheep many sheep). Other examples include deer fish etc.
This famous line is spoken by Duke Senior in Act II Scene I of William Shakespeare's comedy 'As You Like It'.
'Enable' is the verb form meaning 'to make someone able to do something'. 'Capable' is an adjective and 'inability' is a noun.
Equivocation is the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth. It often involves saying something that can be interpreted in two different contradictory ways.
This is part of a famous soliloquy spoken by Macbeth in Act V Scene V of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' upon hearing of his wife's death.
The correct spelling of the word meaning 'able to be trusted as being accurate or true' is 'authoritative'.
The passive modal 'can be saved' becomes 'can save'. 'Our country' becomes the object and 'By whom' becomes the subject 'Who'.
These are the closing lines of the first stanza of W. B. Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" which reflects on the Easter Rising in Ireland.
The passive form of a negative imperative starts with 'Let not' followed by the object 'be' and the past participle of the verb.
'Murder in the Cathedral' is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot first performed in 1935 portraying the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
'All for Love' is a heroic drama by John Dryden written in 1677. It is a retelling of the story of Antony and Cleopatra.
Sitting happily is a participle phrase modifying "the chicken". It functions as a dependent or subordinate phrase and cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
Caliban is a key character in William Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest'. He is the monstrous son of the witch Sycorax.
A common noun is a name for a general class of places or things (e.g. river city boy). A proper noun names a specific one (e.g. Padma Dhaka).
'Caesar and Cleopatra' is a historical play written in 1898 by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
When two actions happened in the past the earlier action uses past perfect tense (had + past participle) and the later action uses simple past.
The correct spelling is 'reminiscence' not 'reminescence'.
'The History of Tom Jones a Foundling' often known as 'Tom Jones' is a comic novel by the English novelist Henry Fielding. It is a classic picaresque novel.
Herman Melville's novel 'Moby-Dick' is about the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt a giant white sperm whale named Moby Dick.