This is a column which is posted on this site three or four times a month. It deals with English Grammar, Vocabulary, and Idioms. I hope that you will follow it, and learn something from it, every time you visit this site.

The Columns are written in fairly simple and easy-to-understand English, and, as you can see, there is a separate box, called 'Words and Phrases', which gives Japanese translations of some of the words and phrases in the Column.

I will take up a wide variety of topics in this Column. Some of them will be rather familiar to you. But even in such cases, I will try to use different approaches, and different kinds of explanations, so that new light is thrown on familiar points.

At other times, I will depart from traditional grammar, and try to introduce new and fresh ways of looking at language.

I hope you enjoy reading this Column.