By Word order, Expressions

Hi InchoI agree with the previous posters completely; I would just like to elaborate a little from a non-native speaker's standpoint to a non-native speaker. We're both foreigners, right?Since there are hardly any inflections in English, the word order is very rigid and certain phrases and...

Hi Old EladioI am not quite sure what you are trying to say with your sentences that contain can't be helped or couldn't be helped. Structurally, they are in the passive voice. If you say: He can't be seen, it means that no one can see him. Maybe you had better forget the expressions. In No.9...

Hi Diddy, Here is the piece with errors corrected, and a couple of amendments made to make the style better. All in all it looked very good, there are a couple of expressions in which the correct preposition is not obvious, you just have to know these I'm afraid! One point is that King or Queen...

Pemmican wrote:Wow, this was an interesting post, "english-test"! But let me make a few additions to your thoughts: >>When discussing cultural differences between nations I think we should always bear in mind a number of things: - people have much more in common than sets them apart...

Hi, "They may very well have begun in China--these 25years of comparative global peace, which we have been enjoying and for which we have all paid so much in changed perceptions,priorities,and actions. ." What's the meaning of the sentence? I think you may see the meaning more clearly if I put...

Hi All ok except for the word order in completing successfully internships. Make it successfully completing internships and it is fine. Good luck.

Hi, if 'who murdered ceaser' is the correct phrase for this expression are you saying this one is wrong 'who did kill ceaser?' K.O

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...

I think no inversion (DO first and S-V then) is needed in this case as there is no DO... I would say "The more forests disappear" is right (my teachers used to tell me: "the more you read, the more you learn", which is a similar construction, "the more"+S+V), however, I've found on the Internet...

Please, help me with these two questions: First: I've heard the following expression: Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated! Is it not supposed that the speaker should have said (following the correct word order in a sentence): Never in all my life I have felt so humiliated! Second:...