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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening! It is suddenly getting much colder in Korea. Especially, the flu is so rampant. Take care of your health...
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The language system allows to express a perceived events in different ways using different linguistic resources. Currently I am doing a research based...
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I would appreciate it is someone could define a simple elliptical sentence and a complex elliptical sentence with a possible example please?
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English has a lot of set phrases with no article. eg)"on foot", "in context", "go to school", "play piano" and etc.
What sort of theories exist behind...
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I don't want to be a pain in the neck but I am doing English Grammar II at the teacher training school and we are analyzing sentences. Since I am practising...
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This is a garbage-like posting written by a poor English learner who has been and still now is agonized by subjunctive things which supposedly...
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In the following sentence: "One teacher neatly described the teacher role as being blurred between teacher,psychlogist and friend." How could...
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To all native English speaking friends, PART I: Does ' A is not as strong as B' mean 'A is weaker than B' to you? If it does go to PART II, else go to...
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'Five books' is a piece of idea. From the word 'five' we know it means more than one book. The question is why we put an extra 's' to denote it is a plural...
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Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading...
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"Kiss whom goodbye. It is rarely heard in conversation now, and just about never in clause-initial position." G K Pullum
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Can anyone explain to me the verb complement structure of "John tends to get hungry." My guess is that "to get hungry" is a direct object, but I am not...
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I would appreciate if you can clarify this for me, since I am confused about the thought that gave birth to this word.
Individual (noun) = entity,...
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In another thread, someone wrote that word of a Latin word origin are considered more formal, and therefore used by more well educated English speakers...
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Hello, I'm writing an essay about male and female language and since I don't have any native speakers of English in my surroundings, I hope you...
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What is the meaning of "hell" in this sentence? "She scared the hell out of me when she stood on the edge of the cliff."
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I heard someone say that in Canada people extend the use of in-law to the uncles, aunties, nephews, nieces and grandparents of one's spouse. Is that so...
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Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective...
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I think it is russian. My father has a friend who learns russian. He's perspective is: russian is the most difficult language for him to learn. And he...
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Why do L2 speakers of English sound foreign as a result of different phonetic patterns?
Any ideas would be appreciated!
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Is the following sentence correct related to hyphens and using "served" rather than "serve"?
"All sponsors will be accepted on a first-come, first-served...
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Just trying to get my head around this long verb phrase; can anyone help me break it down into its elements?
Working backwards, I can see that "have...
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Around a year or so back, I came across a rather intrigued survey on BBC News about "Nation's Favourite Accent". According to the survey, Scottish accent...
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Is the "up" in shut up an adverb or a PP?
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My question may be a little strange...but I appreciate any help I can get. Given a passive sentence: "The subjects have been captured by the officer"....
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