The answer to your question is probably not as clearcut as you'd like it to be: Couple can take either the singular or plural verb. It all depends on whether the couple is seen as one social unit ( a married couple) or whether the members

I can't agree with the final comment. See this note from www.m-w.com : usage A body of opinion favors in with the “ interest, benefit ” sense of behalf and on with the “ support, defense ” sense. This distinction has been observed by

It's not "Football"! Football is the sports with strong men and, well, footballs. Soccer is "Fussball" or "Foodbal" in english, closer to the german word! I'm English but most of the time I don't have a

Scotttiger09, there is no "simple" way to fully explain those two words. Briefly, (1) "Shall" in American English is often confined to questions: Shall we dance? Shall I open the door? (2) Some speakers use it as a strong

I only know there's this website. It's supposed to be for American English though. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html Anyway, as long as you don't put your tongue in a completely different place (and

Hi all. I have read the use of quotation marks in American English. I just want to confirm whether the rules are still valid if one quotation mark is followed by another, for example: We must track the status as a Configuration Item changes from

Hi. I'm a native American English speaker. Most of your sentences sound very natural. 1. The most important thing in life is not love. Sounds okay. The sentence does sound like you mean to say more, like you mean that love isn't the

The only way to hear a difference is listening to contrasting pairs, in my opinion. Minimal pairs, you know. Beat - bit fool - full etc. If you have such major problems, then maybe you could start with an accent reduction course. For American

Very interesting. Phonemes helped me a lot, but if I had known the expression "un" I might have understood correctly. From Longman: (BrE spoken) a short form of 'one', used to say that someone or something is good, bad etc. As

In American English, we'd usually probably say "...out in the sun." 'under the sun' reminds me of the biblical quote "there is nothing new under the sun." which means 'in the world'. I hope that