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The old form of "used to" was " />did (or " />was). Folks would say such things as "Once, I... [More]
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I keep hearing "adult native English speakers do not commit errors in usage".
Do you agree... [More]
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Quote from a discussion on prescrptive and descriptive science:
'The "way the world really... [More]
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Jean-Paul Nerrière, a retired vice president of IBM USA, who is French, says that... [More]
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"Please don't sleep through this wake-up call.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute... [More]
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Please, tell me what "f-expectations" means? [More]
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I had the opinion that "have to" can be used in the simple present to refer to a pesent obligation... [More]
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1. He fell, bonking his head against a tree.
2. The X-ray showed that the bone was broken... [More]
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I'll need to check under the bonnet.
I find this sentence interesting. Without knowing "check... [More]
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Hi, the one below is a post by Clive in another thread. As you well might have guessed, the... [More]
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"(...)radio announcers are expected “to produce the effect of a spontaneous, fluent flow of... [More]
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The filler "er" does not rhyme with cur or burr. True? [More]
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Which hypothesis is reasonable? H1 sees it as "substitution of 'that' for 'of the population... [More]
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Question 1.
Does anyone here use "rename + to"? I find it odd. I always thought "rename" contains... [More]
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As a forum admin and webmaster, I receive many postings and messages that seem automatically... [More]
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Two sentences from: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/future_past.html
1. The... [More]
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Hello Chinese,
Which Chinese dictionary would you recommend? I dont care the price.
BW [More]
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Can we say anything useful about language that we do not already intuitively know? [More]
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Hello Friends!I've just joined. Looks like a very helpful site OK This has been bugging me... [More]
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Is it a good idea for language students to learn a metalanguage for talking about language... [More]
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Hello all,My company manufactures small military loudspeakers, one can either fix them in the... [More]
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Is it our main responsibility as language teachers to help produce language users whose primings... [More]
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Do you agree with this?
"lexis is complexly and systematically structured and that grammar... [More]
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Which of the following expressions would one expect to find in 1) a gardening magazine or website... [More]
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Do moist and damp have the same meaning, for you? [More]
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