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What part of speech is "absolutely" here? A: Are you coming to Jade's party? B: Absolutely. You couldn't keep me away.
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"He's never ever wrong." If you had to give an explanation of that structure, would you look at it stylistically, or grammatically?
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Could someone please point me in the direction of a descriptive, or even comprehensive, grammar that deals adequately with "tails"? Examples...
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I wanna to know angry or angry with.
e.g I angry you or I angry with you. Which sentence are correct?
thnx alot.
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The question is from the book "A student's grammar of the English language"(by Sidney Greenbaum / Randolph Quirk/1990/11th printing) p.418 .
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As I know, in modern English the vowel is no more pronounced as open-mid back unrounded. Now in most dialects it's a central vowel or . Though in dictionaries...
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hi.. may be i am new comer in this forum. my friends i want to know the differences between comunication and talk. I am wating for your help thank...
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"The literary heritage Ideas about English change over time, but two themes endure. One of these is about a ‘heritage’ of literary texts that no pupil...
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I was asked by a client to adapt a US English word doc to UK English and after completing the task my client has asked if UK English is same as...
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Is the word watch considered a subjunctive verb? It is followed by the base form of another verb. We say I watched the children play. If it is a subjunctive...
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Anything like this happening in your country? Want to tell us about it? The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in England has embarked on a study...
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So I wrote this earlier and I need corrections and clarifications Dare not exasperate the great or thou shall meet thy fate thou shall get what thou shan't...
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Do we fish in a river or beside the river?
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Currently I'm struggling to distinguish between blending of words and folk etymology of words. These are the words that are giving me a headache: Phelpsian...
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Hello everybody, First of all, I apologize if this is not the right place to ask this question... But I haven't been able to find a better one! I would...
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Being deeply involved in sounds of English lanaguge & its phonetics, I wonder if people around could enlighten me bit further by answering the following...
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Hello, I am curious as to others opinons of what teaching "key language structures" to EFL students means. Many kind thanks in advance for any...
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Publishers such as Longman, Oxford, Mcmillan, Cambridge, etc produce an American version of their English learners dictionary too. 1- why they do that...
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Figured you guys might know of something like this... Is there a site/book/resource that takes Old English words that we lost (such as judicial and military...
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My cousin is attending ESL Canada. She kept on telling me about how she enjoyed it there and learned so much that’s why I got curious and want to try...
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If anyone could give me feedback on this intro, and what should or shouldn't be in there. “Age, Race/Ethnicity and Gender are the three key determinants...
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hi can u read the description of my field plzz. i will wait ur answer. I am interested in studying socio-pragmatics because that field of study fits with...
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Hello all, Not sure this is the right forum for this question, but... I've always wondered what the title of Philip K. D ick's excellent novel...
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The two examples are seen quite often in literature (especially in technical/medical texts), with the former being more common. Are they strictly equivalent...
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In the society meeting in the United states, when someone meet you that they always ask what you do?. Is it rude when they ask it?
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