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Hi Camilus, You've given me a lot of homework. it weighs on my back, but it never is the last straw. Fortunately, my back is strong enough. I Appositives vs. Parenthetical Element a) Neil Armstrong, the first man who walked on the moon, is a native of Ohio. Here, “the first man who walked...

In English, relative formality is less a question of grammar than of vocabulary and syntax, whereas other languages -- Spanish, for example -- use a different set of verb conjugations. In an informal situation, I might say, "Gimme that." But the formal expression would be "Would you please...

Hi iverness, the site you linked to deals actually with foreign-language-accents. What I was talking about is rather special dialects, regional variants of a language within the language. Standard German is more or less a constructed language which is based on some middle-east German accents,...

Dear Micheal, Hello, Thank you for your lovely and superbly long post to me. I am wondering how long you took to finish the post? You said that my long post deserves long reply from you. Does it means I replying this post to you also get the long reply from you? Do I give you trouble if I do...

It seems to be b). I've never heard that expression before - but I'll add it to my vocabulary... *hehe*

Who says you need one? The words you have in your card are those you decided you would learn during, say, the week. You simply do not commit them to memory, but use an aid until you can see the words and the examples in your mind without even looking at the card. Anyway, carrying a pen with you...

Namaskar. This site has a lot of ways to improve English, you can write things about India, I'd like to read them. You can talk in 'voice message' and talk and listen to others in 'voice chat'. And by reading the threads you'll get new vocabulary. And about grammar and doubts, there is a...

>> Thanks Pemmican for your well thought out comments. You strike me as a diligent language scholar, so I greatly appreciate what you have to say. Thank you very much, Mike, but I wouldn't say I strike you This is just the way I see it. >> Of course only a fool would argue that the...

good clarification raul! on further reflection, i think that sentences such as "where is he at?" come from a general tendancy to make contractions - and would always be pronounced "where's he at?" (never as four distinct words, the "is" being melded with "where"). as a two-syllable expression,...

They do speak German, yes - I was just referring to his nationality and I hope you don't see him as a philosopher. He might have impressed people while he was holding speeches, but: His speeches were simply built and structured, the reason why they were such engrossing was because he held them...