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3. What language do you think is the most difficult? 4. What language do you think the most difficult is? I guess the third one is right, isn't it? When we ask for information, we often say somethink like "Could you tell me.. ". If you begin a question like this, the word order is different...

Having fun with us Spanish speakers, uh? Oh, well... I admit I also laughed at those lexical problems. There are some cultural explanations, too. Some Spanish speakers wrongly use "pile" because they "imported" the French word instead of the English one (pile instead of battery). In my...

Hello meg2589 and all, I almost exclusively teach Spanish students, with the exception of some American students who are learning Spanish but this is a different story. I can tell you the most common mistakes and difficulties that we, Spanish people, find when studying English. The first problem...

The problem here is the word order: In a usual sentence (main clause or subordinate clause), the word order is Subject-Predicate-Object (O): "He told me where you are." Even in an interrogative clauses, this word order remains: "Can you(S) tell(V) me where you are?". (Can here is an auxiliary...

Hello, Rex Those "wh-words" mentioned serve more than one purpose in English. It is true that they are not used only in questions. There are two big groups of questions: a. "yes-no questions": these begin with a verb, usually an auxiliary, and require "yes" or "no" for an answer. the...

I was recently presented with two sentences: "She already has her first client lined up." and "She has already lined up her first client." The person who showed me these sentences was interested in how to classify the verbs; which are auxiliary verbs and which objects go with which verbs. Of...

All of your sentences are correct. The choice of where to position the "maybe" is one of style rather than grammatical necessity. If style is what you'd like to improve on, I would suggest getting rid of the "was...maybe" structure altogether: He saw something that may have been a ghost. It...