Hi, ex1: I will try ( no sleeping / not to sleep ) Both OK, but 'not to sleep' is very much the normal thing to say. ex2: I'm going to my work, ( for working / to work ); to work ex3: the tempreture today is about 30 OK ex4: I need to

thank you Clive, ex1: I will try ( no sleeping / not to sleep ) ex2: I'm going to my work, ( for working / to work ) ex3: the tempreture today is about 30 ex4: I need to buy a shirt ( for the work / to ware it in the work ) ex5 : I don't

Hi, I'd look at it in terms of flows and points of view. Premise: I live in Italy. If a person, say from Spain, came to live in my country, to me he would be an immigrant (but to Spanish people he'd be an emigrant). If my neighbour

I didn't necissarily switch accents... But I spent about two years in London for work and in about the first three weeks I started having difficulty pronouncing words. I'd trip over my tongue often and started chopping off syllables. It

So, with British English, 'to my ears' is OK. I wonder if other British people here agree on this.

Hello. I'm a student from Korea (South) trying to learn English based on received pronunciation. And it's kind of hard because everyone here tries to learn American English. Here goes the questions: 1. I reckon Americans often use

. I have underlined some problem areas. There is a tension in Western society between people who think that everyone should have legal equality and people who think that we have to make people equal in every way. Most English people share the

Hello, I have to do an essay and I would appreciate if you could tell me if the the sentences are grammatically correct. The topic is: The British poet and essayist Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) once wrote: “As to the duty of pursuing

Well, I assume that all British people know Standard English or the Queen's English as others call it. And what about the American varieties? I know there is a general American accent. But I heard there are also varieties of American English.

Hello. The Oxford Dictionary says: thick (BrE, informal) (of a person) slow to learn or understand things: Are you thick, or what? Is it common for British people to say "think" instead of "stupid"?