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Yoong Liat wrote: 1. She walks as though she is drunk. 2. She walks as though she was drunk. 3. She walks as though she were drunk. What is the difference between the three sentences? I believe #2 and #3 have the same meaning. This website may be helpful in...

Hi Inchoateknowledge, Thanks for an intriguing post! The one I often hear being referred to as BBC English. I have spoken about it with some people who have been raised in an English-speaking country: South-Africa, USA, England, Scotland, Philippines, from the four corners of the...

Hi Cheesecake_08! I have a question for you and any Filipinas/Filipinos - or anyone with experience teaching or learning English in the Philippines - reading this... (I've already posted this elsewhere on the forum, but no answers yet.): I hope to move (back) to Manila in the future and offer...

Hello everybody, I’m not sure if I placed this topic in the right place. I need some advice on course books and I hope you can help me. I want to do self study with them and I want to start again from beginner/elementary level. That is because I feel I’ve missed a lot of things while I...

Ok guys, thread resolved: From BBC Learning English Service --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv149.shtml We now need actions rather than words. What we now need are actions rather than words. Actions rather than words are what we now need...

Hi Fleogan, You wrote: I don't think people learning English would have that much of a problem learning "colour" instead of "color", or "realise" instead of "realize". But now, thanks to American spellings, they have to learn two variations. 'Realize' is not an American spelling....

Patricklui wrote: Hello I am new to here. My mother tongue is Cantonese and I like to polish my English. It's known that English has two different versions : spoken and written. I have been learning English since I was a child and my written English is not too bad because this is what I...

To summarise everyone's comments Dominik - and also agree with you original statement - it's safe to say that, when learning British English, the "r" should not normally be pronounced EXCEPT when the following word starts with a vowel, where it always should. The letter...

Kilimanjaro wrote: Grammar Geek wrote: Sometimes I make mistakes on this forum. Usually, it is because I type quickly but not accurately, and this is entirely my fault. Sometimes, it's because I am thinking with only my "American English" brain and I say something it wrong or not used a...

Dear friend, I've just read your mail. Your questions is very interesting. Learning english as a second language can be a hard subject, but depend on your previous environment. Depend on your mother tonge. I mean, languages have a core structure, a root, an origin, as you can see... For...