Editorial Policy

1. Who writes this site

EnglishBD is a small independent project founded and run by Salmaun Hossain in Bangladesh. There is no newsroom and no editorial board. Lessons, model answers and explanations are written for the site rather than collected from elsewhere.

We do not employ a panel of reviewers, and no page on this site carries an expert sign-off. If you see a claim on any English-learning site that its content is 'expert reviewed', it is worth asking who the experts are and what reviewing meant. We would rather tell you plainly that our pages are written carefully and checked against the official syllabus where one applies, than imply a process we do not have.

2. Two kinds of page, and how to tell them apart

Grammar and skill lessons, paragraphs, compositions, dialogues, letters, applications and completing stories are written by a person, one at a time. Each carries an explanation in Bangla, worked examples, the mistakes examiners actually penalise, and questions with answers.

Dictionary pages work differently. The headword, its Bangla meaning, its definition and its examples are authored. The sections beneath them — word family, similar and opposite words with their meanings, other English words sharing the same Bangla meaning, idioms, and the sentences quoted from our own lessons — are assembled automatically from other authored entries in the same dictionary. Nothing in those sections is generated prose: every item is a real entry, a real idiom or a real sentence from a page we wrote, and each is linked so you can go and check it.

This is why two dictionary pages do not look alike. A word with authored irregular forms shows them; a word without shows nothing in their place. A section is absent rather than filled when there is nothing true to put in it.

3. What we refuse to generate

We do not invent pronunciation guides, inflected forms, word origins, frequency statistics, CEFR levels, synonyms, or grammar rules to fill a gap in a template. A learner cannot check any of those, which is exactly why inventing them would be worse than leaving them out.

Two examples of where this costs us coverage, deliberately. English irregular verbs are a closed class of roughly two hundred and we hold verified forms for 107 of them, so we show forms only for those — a rule applied to the rest would confidently print 'teached'. And we do not guess whether a noun is countable, because 'informations' and 'advices' are precisely the mistakes Bangla speakers make, and a guess there would teach the error rather than correct it.

Where a number is disputed rather than unknown, we say which it is. Our composition on the Liberation War gives three million as the figure the country officially remembers, not as a count we have verified.

4. Syllabus and textbook material

Exam content is written against the NCTB mark distribution and revised syllabus documents for the relevant year, and the marks each item carries are taken from those documents rather than from secondary sources. Where secondary sources disagreed with the official document, the official document decided.

English For Today is a copyrighted textbook. We reference its units and lessons by name and number — which is a citation, the same as a syllabus or a library catalogue does — and we reproduce none of its passages. Any explanation of a lesson is written from the syllabus line and our own knowledge of the topic. If one of our pages could replace the textbook, we have copied it; our pages are meant to make the book easier to study, not unnecessary.

5. How we check quality

Every page is scored automatically on whether it answers its own question, teaches beyond the answer, offers practice, and leads somewhere useful. The scoring runs on every build, the weakest pages are listed, and a change that makes our weakest content worse fails the build rather than shipping.

We do not use word count as a measure of quality. A long page can be empty, and padding a thin page with generic prose makes it worse rather than better.

We are not finished. At the time of writing, a large number of dictionary entries are still thinner than we want them to be, and we know which ones because we measure it.

6. Corrections

If something on this site is wrong, please tell us and we will fix it. Language teaching has a great many edge cases and we will certainly have got some of them wrong.

Write to us through the contact page with the page address and what you believe is incorrect. Corrections to a factual error are made to the page itself; where a mistake was significant enough that a reader could have been misled, we note the change on the page rather than editing quietly.

7. Advertising and independence

The site is free and is intended to stay free. Advertising, where it appears, pays for hosting and content; it does not decide what we write about, and no advertiser is given or offered influence over a lesson's content.

Advertising never appears inside an active lesson in the learning app, and rewarded ads there unlock optional extras rather than gating anything a learner needs.