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Dear Charles, I came across your ad in the English Forums website. I am interested in applying for this teaching post with your company in Dongguan. I am experienced certified teacher (U.S. passport holder) with 12 years teaching experience as well as management and business administration...

Dear Sir/Madam, I enrolled in Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in 1998 and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelors Degree in Social Science (Accounting option). I...

Good work, Nenad. I have indicated corrections below in bold: Dear Dr (Mr) **** : The purpose of this letter is to supply basic information about myself , my education and my future academic interests and plans, since I would like to apply for a PhD program in your departmen t. My...

Helo! I would like to thanks everyone at English Forums. Your forum is a priceless service for all of us with poor English. I must say that I learned a lot surfing thru your forum. In near future, I would like to apply to several Phd programs. Motivation letter is a must for all of...

Let's spread out the issue a little bit: ____ O ____ Type 2. Basic forms . a. If we caught the 10 o'clock train, we would (could, might, etc.) get there by lunch-time. b. If I came into a fortune, I would give up smoking. c. If I knew how it worked, I could...

Hi Musesun "This forbidden to make money in the university" is not a correct sentence. The word "forbidden" is not a tense at all -- it is just the past participle (V3) of the verb 'forbid'. You can say "This is forbidden", but you cannot say "This forbidden". Have you learned how to make...

I suppose that I am trying to inject better balance (in my direction) into this 2-year-old thread mostly because it is raining hard and I am unable to go out as planned. While it is obvious that the phrase is by far most common in Indian and other Asian Englishes, Ms Google provides enough...

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I...

AmE Several verbs ( suggest, recommend, ask , etc) require the subjunctive after them: I suggested she go to the library. BrE The subjunctive is avoided in such constructions, and the should + infinitive is used: I suggested she should go to the library. or ordinary present and...

Anonymous wrote: Please answer the following questions: 1. Why the word 'police' does not have a determiner in front of it when my dictionary noted that it could be a singular noun? ... identified by police and parents as the day-care center owner... 'the' could be used, but is often...