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Structure

Structure: ‘Must have’ vs ‘can’t have’

When investigators reconstruct an accident, they reason from evidence — the same logic English expresses with ‘must have’ and ‘can’t have’. Practise the contrast using the…

Article 10 Aug 2024

Voepass ATR 72 Spins to Ground, Killing 62

On 9 August 2024, a Voepass ATR 72-500 fell from cruising altitude and crashed into a residential neighbourhood near Vinhedo, São Paulo State, killing all 62…

Structure

Structure: ‘Due to’ vs ‘because’

"Due to" and "because" both explain a cause — but different grammar follows each one. Practise the contrast using the 2024 CrowdStrike IT outage that grounded…

Article 20 Jul 2024

CrowdStrike Outage Cancels Thousands of Flights

On 19 July 2024, a faulty software update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused millions of Windows computers to crash simultaneously around the world. The failure…

Structure

Structure: ‘Reporting verbs’

Allege, claim, insist, acknowledge, deny, testify: practise the reporting verbs that shaped coverage of Boeing's Senate hearing on its safety culture.