Hello: Nothing is technically wrong with your sentences, but your passage would read better as: "How are celebrity moms able to look so good just a few months after childbirth? Flipping through the tabloids, mothers who aren't famous

I teach English as a Second Language to adults who come to the U.S. as employees of various international companies. More than once, in working with an engineer, especially, this question has come up and I've not had an answer. Now I will be

This just goes to show that English does not belong to anyone it belongs everybody. Even the native speakers, who presumably have better knowledge of English, commit grammar errors. Truly, English has evolved into the lingua franca of the world

Welcome to the Forums, Rendal. I just want to point out that this is a place of instruction, where many people who are learning English as a second language come to get help in their language skills. Therefore, we encourage all participants to use

The second on is correct. The confusion lies in the fact that we normally don't pronounce the 'd' in 'used' distinctly; this is because of its proximity to 'to'. This mistake is made by many native speakers, so if you

Hi, I'm learning English as a second language, and a few days a go, I, and my study mates, studied this article I found at a NEWSWEEK.COM. Here's the address of the article. http://www.newsweek.com/id/148925 and this is the article we

25 August 2008 Dear Stan: I am a native English speaker who is very interested in Russia and the Russian language (which I wish to learn and know several phrases). I have experience teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). What is your goal on

I believe that the Chatbot Game can be used to help students learn English as a second language: http://chatbotgame.com http://chatbotgame.com/?cmd=chat_rs http://chatbotgame.com/?cmd=chat_s Players of the Chatbot Game shape the chatbot's

When it comes to "t" and "d", Belly, regional variation in pronunciation is the rule rather than the exception. What everyone has replied is correct, even if it may seem contradictory. In teaching English as a second language,

... but that, "interestingly, native speakers (from Britain and the US) were not found to be the most easily understood, nor were they, as subjects, found to be the most able to understand the different varieties of English" (Smith,