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Hello everybody I need a native English speaker to review a paper I wrote It is 4 pages long and all comments to improve the language will be welcome as some parts are unclear Many thanks Bjossi here is the text 1 INTRODUCTION Verne and Torryuis defined slush flows as a mudflow like flowage of...

Hello excuse me It shouhd have been My grammar book says PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE is usual with all verbs in negative sentences I have written PP continuous which was an accident I try to translate exactly what this book says It s a Czech book for language schools Angličtina pro jazykové školy II s...

Hi I suppose it s all right if I say 1 I haven t driven a car since 2000 OK My grammar book says present perfect continous is usual in negative sentences with all verbs Generally speaking this sounds odd to me What about present perfect continuos in this negative sentence 2 I haven t been driving...

I don t know about the most popular verb business have is used more often since it can function as an auxiliary verb the use of be as an auxiliary is encountered more rarely that s interesting i always thought the most popular 2 letter expression was I m as in I m off tut pub I m quite interested...

nq 2 Only if you re nonrhotic and think that s the same as pill AH teez nq nq 1 I am and I do nq I are Is English the only language which has every case of the current tense of the most popular verb in the language irregular Shakespeare sneakiliy avoided it by using the infinitive since...

Hi Ngocternal Be consistent with your tenses and agreements Just my two cents though Feel free to toss them Title The Effects of The Living Wage Law A living wage rate is a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably semantic conflict However according to The Employment Effect...

Hiya Feb Let me give you my impressions on your essay I d like to limit to the first part since I m running out of time today I ve put together some comments paragraph after paragraph see below I believe that the media has little to do with the increase in youth violence Too many people try to...

Welcome to English Forums What a long post You might consider breaking it up into smaller posts so as not to scare off the reponders In general native speakers don t focus much if at all on the question of real or unreal conditions pasts futures and the like More simply each form tells more or...

The have and have got constructions mean exactly the same in the meaning of possession e g as in I have got a book They can also be used for obligations I have got to wash the dishes and there they have a slightly negative connotation The got in these constructions is part of the present tense of...

MrPedantic You continue to only partially quote me There was more in that post than just AFTER and BEFORE There was also the ACTION AFTER ACTION complete thought BEFORE ACTION complete thought __ you quote me again please include both the action and a time reference like before or after NOT TAKE...