By Constructions, Vocabulary

hi all, hope you are doing well. I am new here and about to ask a very basic question. How do I build vocabulary Ok, here is the story. I learned English as my second langauge. I am quite good and fluent in day to day English but the thing is since I learned English as second language, I really...

Thanks, Linguanaut! So, basically, business English is normal English (grammar, sentence construction etc... the same) just the vocabulary is filled with business-concerned terms? Jake

Thank you very much, MrP. Now in my question: "In the following sentence how would you analyse the second "IT"? Is it a kind of demonstrative pronoun?"It was dark out there, and I couldn't really tell who IT was creeping about."Would you please explain this particular type of...

Dear teachers, - Is the word "foodstuff" quite informal in English or can it be used in academic English?- Is the sentence “Give me thread.” correct or should I say « give me some thread » instead?- In the following sentence how would you analyse the second "IT"? Is it a kind of demonstrative...

Hello everyone well, I need some help to correct a text I have written in English (I am French) for an exhibition (start soon), it is about the cathedral of Chartres, the architecture vocabulary is good, I just need an opinion about the mistakes. Many Thanks Set up along the Beauce, on a...

The construction is slightly awry, but the vocabulary and spelling is good. There is no reason to favor that universities should allot the same amount of money to students' sport activities as they do to their libraries. As is commonly known, it is dogs' sensitive sense of smell that assists...

Hi yohooo8, Here are the edited versions of your two blogs. I really have started enjoying editing your blogs. Some as these are so interesting! and all of them are funny! Regarding helping you with writing, though I do not feel qualified to give you any suggestions ( the...

~girding on my armour~ I'm coming to rescue my mother tongue from the evils of translation engines!! ~chuckle~ I've never liked those translation programs, and I see I have good reasons for it! "Hola a todos; mi español es muy pobre, sé lo que nnecesito escribir en mi propio idioma pero no puedo...

I'm sorry, I disagree totally. Writing that is so "sophisticated" as to be unintelligible to native speakers does not demonstrate a "great command" of the language. The fact that someone uses long words and complex constructions, instead of simple words and clear constructions does NOT...

Hi iverness, the site you linked to deals actually with foreign-language-accents. What I was talking about is rather special dialects, regional variants of a language within the language. Standard German is more or less a constructed language which is based on some middle-east German accents,...