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Hello, English exhilaration This is how I'de rewrite your sentences, but I don't see anything wrong with most of the verbs in square brackets. The "mistakes" seem to be somewhere else in the sentences. 1. Ranjit may help himself to the beer in the fridge. "To" instead of "with". "To help...

Poor grammar and poor style seem to be rather common not only in English. You should see Argentinian newspapers and magazines! In my country, it seems that literally anyone can be an editor. I have friends (Spanish language teachers) who use newspaper articles in their classrooms and have their...

OK, I understand your confusion. You don't use definite articles with directions. I would say "go left, then right" or "go south." But in your example sentence, 'right' is more like a location than a direction--it's a specific place, like the bank, the store, the theater, or the park. The...

Atesttaker- 6. I like Arabian food. This sentence means that I like Arabian food in a general way; if you gave me some, I'd eat it. If I said "I like the Arabian food," it could mean that I was at a restaurant where many different types of food were available. Ex. "Do you like the Persian...

A while ago some one said this to me as a description of my character. I read an article from one live show,and I came across the same expression. "She's a fireball. She sort of arrived, and you've never seen somebody with so much energy." In this case, does the word 'fireball' mean...

Hi Guest, The principle of the parallel structures is about keeping in some degree the uniformity in expressing similar contents and functions in sentences. You don’t have to feel the burden to vary the form of your expressions constantly. Formerly, the learners of foreign languages were...

Which of the following is/are correct, and which expression is more common? 1. Is cat a mammal? 2. Is a cat a mammal? 3. Is the cat a mammal? 4. Are cats mammals? I have difficulty deciding when an article should be used. For instance, "cat" is a singular count noun and is supposed to require...

I think the main reason is these expressions of Chinese festival all consist of common English words. Am I right?

Hi, everyone here. I'm a new comer of this forum from China. And I'm working hard to learn English. My question is: If I want to express a meaning in one article for several times, whether I should use the same word or expression for times or try to find others to replace the word or...

AT JOHN 1:1 the King James Version reads: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Trinitarians claim that this means that "the Word" (Greek, ho lo'gos) who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God himself. Someone who is "with" another person...