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Hi Believer, Hypothetical Situation: I am thinking of holding a seminar and have to hand out a sheet that lists the things to be covered in the seminar. It's really an 'agenda'. 1. What should be the title of this hand-out? 2. I have written some hypothetical topics to be covered in a format...

Hypothetical Situation: I am thinking of holding a seminar and has to hand out a sheet that lists the things to be convered in the seminar. 1. What should be the title of this hand-out? 2. I have written some hypothetical topics to be covered in a format that might be appropriate or not be...

Silversamand wrote: hi Is following Sentence a questional one or what? " you still don't know what to do this summer? " if it's a question why it's structure looks like a simple sentence? if it isn't so then what's question mark in last of it? thanks Hello Silversamand We find...

The big mistake many people make when learning English is to associate the written words with the spoken ones. They technically are two different worlds. Since you have a computer, I would suggest you install iTunes (it's free) and subscribe to several podcasts. You will be able to listen to...

Hello Tallulah The grammatical subject of a sentence isn't necessarily the same as the "subject matter". In this sentence, for instance – 1. My girlfriend ran off with the milkman. – the grammatical subject of the sentence is "my girlfriend"; the predicate is "ran off with the milkman"; and...

Hi All, I have been conducting Neutralized American Accent Training in Makati, Malate, Libis, and Quezon City for the last three months now. I have worked with Korean, Japanese, and Filipino executives, high school teachers, university students, and Filipino professionals. I utilize the book...

Allowing that the tendency probably shifts to the disappointment being felt by 'you', not 'me', the other meaning could be there, set up by earlier conversation, context or intonation. I would have expected a perfect infinitive in a 'my disappointment' context for #1; but no doubt it could...

1. It was very disappointing for you to give it up so soon. 2. It was very disappointing when you gave it up so soon. Mr P wrote: Leaving out 'to me' gives sentence #1 a different meaning: The disappointment' is felt by 'you', not 'me'. I respectfully disagree. Allowing that the tendency...

Sorry, my mistake. I misunderstood the intonation of your statement completely. I thought you meant that bilinguilism would only be good for a developing brain, and would produce no effects on a developed brain. Clearly you did not mean that at all. My observations of my daughter lead me to...