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Forbes wrote In your comments you are assuming that I am imagining a real life situation where I am taking a class Rather I am assuming a hypothetical person I am addressing who has the same level of education as I have but who has not considered the phenomenon of language and knows only English...

Forbes wrote I think you misunderstand what I am trying to get at it If you are teaching someone Thai and you say Thai nouns have no plural you may give the impression that Thai has no means of expressing number which is not the case I agree that many students of language do not know what the...

Hi This is an expression that has a number of meanings that are rather general in nature and dependent on the context eg to annoy someone by rebuking repeatedly as you suggest for a woman to do the above to a man thus figuratively emasculating him reducing his masculinity perhaps by weakening his...

Soylista wrote I am confused with this expression will be going to Vb eg I will be going to visit Aunt Carol tomorrow To me this expression is sort of redundant Why do you need to use both will and be going to I somewhat understand the differences between future meaning expressions be going to...

Paco2004 wrote Philip wrote My ear prefers If you promise to leave tomorrow I ll tell you the truth now just because I don t like the future in the if clause I ve never looked for an authoritative source to back me up and there may well not be one Thanks for the reply Philip One of my English...

Retire when it is used to describe persons it is in its origin an intransitive verb to mean draw oneself away from the contact with other people although it has been used as a transitive verb since ME days in the case it is used to talk about things It is only in 18th century people began to use...

1 For wife to be husband to be we typically use fiance e The version with a single e is for a male and the version with two is for a female Note that there s an accent over the first e which I can t post because the forum doesn t allow the use of copy paste English keyboards don t have letters...

Hello MIA6Are you a native speaker If so it s very interesting to me I m a Japanese who have learned English rather for a long time but still find it tough to catch the exact sense and usage of English present perfect tense I m afraid you might feel ill to hear about the grammar of your native...

Your questions 1 Is it really accepted as a slang in the US or in otherEnglish speaking countries Comments The answer is both Yes and No The answer is Yes because I m loving it and even I m liking it arebecoming very commonly used in American English If you do a Websearch for I mloving it you ll...

Hello CliveI think this way The correct and formal form may be like 1 For suppose it English grammar were easy to learn for them then we wouldn t have here so many questioners Here the conjunctive for governs the whole that follows it Do you agree it s a right sentence Then let s consider the way...