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Modal verb: I have to study Grammar all the time. Present perfect: I have been in Dalat for twenty years. She has been.......... Present perfect continuous: I have been eating She has been eating. Causative: I have my car serviced If -clause; If I have time, I'll go with you ...

Dear MrP, I'm so sorry for the delay. I was so busy doing all sorts of exercices (grammar & translation) that I forgot about this one. Here are my answers: THE TURN OF THE SCREW Chapter 1 I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right...

My high school Chinese teacher asked me to help her translate these two abstracts from Chinese into English. I have finished, but I need to correct them into better English. Please help me. I have to give my teacher the translation. She helped me quite a lot while I encountered the most...

Hello GGI feel the English expression "superior to me" comes from a Latin phrase "me superiorem (elder than me)" where "me" is the ablative case of the pronoun for the first person singular but incidentally the same in form as the accusative "me". On the other hand "my superior" might have its...

Hi, I'm looking for an adequate metaphore here: Would not the marriage without a mistress squeal, tilt and sink? Is not the mistress the hidden dynamo of adultery as well as marriage, virus and vaccine? It is a metaphore: marriage: ship. Is squeal OK? or should it be creak or crack? Is...

Hello HelaThe plane of its orbit is "the plane on which the Sun goes around the Earth". You can explain the picture yourself in your mother tongue and try to translate it into English. Then we might correct the translation. As for "a main sequence star" and "a spectral class of G2", I don't know...

ManiacX78X wrote:Hello,i study technician engineering in germany and my last english lesson is about 7 years ago. I've wrote an application in german, but i need an english translation too. Therefore i have used the follwing free online...

Yes, Hong Kongers adopt a rather utilitarian, if shortsighted, approach to learning. Sadly, the longest distance between two points is often a shortcut. A-level shouldn't take up that much time. Active listening, thinking, and participation in class all minimize the need for revision. My elder...

Then what about these sentences, pacoWhat do you mean by "Then what about these sentences, paco?" Do you want to say you don’t agree to what I wrote previously? I wrote just what CGEL and my another grammar book are saying. If you don't like to believe them, I don’t mind it. What I would like...

hi break away! I am not an expert in english language but I have had some studies in grammar. as far as I know, "about four years ago when I was living in Paris" is an adverb clause of time. adverb and adjective clauses of time should be as close as possible to the word or phrase that is...