WANG CHUN  +  475524 Mon, 11 Feb 08 06:11 AM Hello I hvae a several questions. Thank you I do not know if  I should put " a" before heavier accent" ? "hesitancy doing sth" or hesitancy at doing sth? which one is correct?   1. Student1 had heavy accent, showed much more hesitancy responding to the question, and expressed less confidence than student2.  2. Student1 had a heavier accent, showed much more hesitancy at responding to the given question, and expressed less confidence in speaking English than student2. WANG CHUN Joined on Thu, Sep 23 2004 Full Member 136 Grammar, Accents, Speaking English

	Hoa Thai  +  475575 Mon, 11 Feb 08 10:17 AM Hi, #1. Since accent is a countable noun, we need 'a' for both heavy accent and heavier accent. #2. I prefer 'hesitancy in responding'. Besides the above comments, both sentences have a run-on problem. There are more than one way to reword them; and here is my suggestion: Student1 had a heavy accent. S/he showed much more hesitancy in responding to the question, and expressed less confidence than student2. Student1 had a heavier accent than student2. S/he also showed muchmore hesitancy in responding to the given question, and expressed lessconfidence in speaking English. Hoa Thai Joined on Mon, Oct 15 2007 Vietnam Contributing Member 1,100 Best Regards - Hoa Thai Grammar, Nouns, Countable Nouns, Accents, Speaking English

	Hoa Thai  +  475579 Mon, 11 Feb 08 10:36 AM Hoa Thai “Hi, #1. Since accent is a countable noun, we need 'a' for both heavy accent and heavier accent. #2. I prefer 'hesitancy in responding'. Besides the above comments, both sentences have a run-on problem. There are more than one way to reword them; and here is my suggestion: Student1 had a heavy accent. S/he showed much more hesitancy in responding to the question, and expressed with less confidence than student2. Student1 had a heavier accent than student2. S/he also showed much more hesitancy in responding to the given question, and expressed with less confidence in speaking English. ” Hoa Thai