Guidelines for posting

Any student of the English-Spanish degree is welcome to post information on this post, but not only the student-manager, as well as the supervising teacher, will review and edit the texts. The reason to do this is to make them comply to the rules of the English language and "correctness" or better perhaps acceptability. We would like people to read the posts here and find them reliable and "true" English, if there is such a thing... Apart from that, we will also aim at writing in British English and avoiding colloquial language, too specific of spoken English.
Any doubts or querries, leave your comment or contact us by email - english.spanish.foreignlanguages@gmail.com.

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Am I right or am I right?

Although those who know me as a teacher acknowledge I'm not really a know-it-all "species", there are times when I know for sure I am right. One of these cases had to do with the verb to use in the context of hiring a house or apartment: should it be hire or let? Most chose 'hire', though of course the correct answer was 'let'.
The context demanded the idea of owning estate which you would be interested in letting; thus, having someone renting (paying for) it.
Nothing better than London on my way to Istanbul to prove this in a thousand and one cases. Here's the hard proof.



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