What is a company? - Legal English

A company is regarded in law as being a separate legal ‘person’, with a separate legal personality. This means that it has rights separate from its owners and managers to enter into contracts, employ people, own property and conduct business.

A company can be a private or a public company. A public company may offer its shares for sale to the public whereas a private company may not.

Moreover, business or commercial law the entire body of substantive law applicable to the rights and duties of persons engaged in commerce or mercantile pursuits

By far the largest number of incorporated companies are incorporated with limited liability.

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Should you avoid grammar using the communicative method in the classroom?

While Asantha U. Attanayake makes some good points in the piece entitled "Avoiding teaching grammar in communicative classroom" "avoid" may be too strong a word.

For my entire three years teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language, it never ceases to amaze how teaching grammar is controversial in the profession.

Grammar is the glue binding all the parts of the language together. It should be blended into the course subtly, but not avoided. One needs to know the structure of the language. Poor grammar is often reflected in a student´s poor writing.

While inherent in the communicative - speaking - method of teaching a language is a de-emphasis on grammar and writing, grammar remains a key ingredient in being able to communicate in the language! Knowing the function of the parts of speech provides a framework for conveying information so one is understood.

While grammar is not the centerpiece of a communicative-based course, it surely cannot be avoided. Grammar pops up more often in student questions so best to address the subject head on and avoid any surprises.
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What is aestheticism?

In our continuing Literature Terminology Series, we address aestheticism.



Aestheticism was an approach to life based on the philosophy of 'art for art's sake'. It emphasised the importance of art above everything else and the pleasure to be found in beautiful things. 

Aestheticism was born out of the essay, ‘The Poetic Principle’, by Edgar Allen Poe. He believed writing poems simply for the poem’s sake was not lacking in nobility or dignity. Later, Théophile Gautier, a French author, picked up Poe’s idea, and coined the slogan, ‘Art for Art’s sake’(the English translation of l'art pour l'art), in defiance of those who advocated that true art had a moral purpose. 


It was a lifestyle among poets, and literary giants like Oscar Wilde who revered in its free spirit in morally repressive and scandalous Victorian England.

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