Please tell me if a native speaker says this sentence in casual speech, could the underlined part sound like you and not you'd ? No. A native speaker would produce a double d . The first d , at the end of you'd , is unreleased, stopped, or

Hi Please tell me if a native speaker says this sentence in casual speech, could the underlined part sound like you and not you'd ? I was wondering when you'd do that. (when you do that.) Thanks, Tom

"Yes, but he didn't go to the park, though." Does the second comma in the second sentence have any right being there? A comma is often used in this context. In speech, a short pause is used instead of the comma. It helps understand

Thanks, Amy. So, if a child eats his apple NOISILY , how should a parent advise him? Don't sound like a pig. This sentence doesn't sound like educated speech. Or just. Don't make sounds while eating...

Hi. You said in your response: Your earlier quote was "Simple Past and Past Progressive do not normally change in sentences with when / if." That part doesn't mention the simple present. I assume the original quote is correct

Pl. help to change these direct sentences into indirect speech: 1) Purvi says to Akshay, "What do you say in this matter?" 2)Anurag said,"What a nice party this is!" 3) Radha said to Uma,"Thank you for the

Can someone tell me this please, the sentence is "The people were asked to go in another direction" Thanks!

I frequently want to use the conjunctive adverb then as a coordinating conjunction, as you see in the sentence below. But I can't find anything in the grammar books that would allow such a thing. This structure seems common in speech. Why

Hello, I wrote down all of the notes I had for you on my whiteboard, and because I need to clear up room I'm just going to post what I have written down instead of erasing it and wasting it. Practically every problem in your paper fits into

We were present. - what part of speech is the word present in this sentence?