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Dear members, I am a Dutch scholar in my exam year of grammar school. Upcoming Friday I need to have sent in all my application papers for university. I saw the excellent help offered by all of you to correct motivation letters and give advise. I just finished my motivation letter and I would...

"Slang is mostly made by lively, imaginative people, who are not afraid of being different from others or of breaking the accepted rules of grammar and speech. It has been called 'the plain man's poetry' and is valuable because it gives new life to old ideas. Naturally it occurs most in...

IvonneViovy wrote: Hello! That is a great forum! I am preparing myself for an application (one has to speak German, Spanish and English) My Spanish is very good..because it is my mother tongue, my German is good because I have been living here for almost 10 years now... and unfortunately my...

Hello! That is a great forum! I am preparing myself for an application (one has to speak German, Spanish and English) My Spanish is very good..because it is my mother tongue, my German is good because I have been living here for almost 10 years now... and unfortunately my English is not good.....

Hi, In 'Longman English Grammar' section 2.10.2, it talks about compound nouns relating to locations. It says, the first part of the noun refers to location and the second part refers to the thing in this location. (As I am reading a translated version of this book, I can't figure out what's the...

Hi Goodman,My knowledge was from an English-grammar textbook - written in Vietnamese - which I believe is a translation of some sort. Your comment asked me to search for the origional and here it is for your reading....

Colombo wrote:I'm trying to translate my CV into English, but I'm finding a lot of difficulties. Apart from the overall chronic style of the result, there are certain things that I find I don't know how to say. I'm copying a list here, in case someone can lend me a hand (for which I'd be...

Grammar Geek wrote:.... Just say "reading case histories" - don't try to make cases possessive. GG, thanks for your response again! You know what, I kept feeling discomfortable with these two sentences (translation) I wrote. Because the source language Chinese version "jie1 shou4 hui4...

I'm trying to translate my CV into English, but I'm finding a lot of difficulties. Apart from the overall chronic style of the result, there are certain things that I find I don't know how to say. I'm copying a list here, in case someone can lend me a hand (for which I'd be immensely grateful). I...

Grammar Geek wrote: I've never heard "one swallow does not make a summer" before. Is that a BrE expression, or a direct translation of an idiom in your language? Thanks, GG. The proverb is definitely English, but I'm sure whether it's AE or BE.