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Hello everybody, If it is an expression that you, Mr Micawber, and others, have heard a lots of times before, then OK, because it is possible that it's a mistake in the text. I've come across some other mistakes in the book, such as wrong names of the characters, wrong spelling of the names and...

Nona The Brit wrote:And teacher Brian...what do people in Scotland, Wales and Ireland speak? That is exactly the point I am making! By simply using the expression 'native speaker of English' the jod advert was not clear. One of my students had been speaking Chinese-English for many years....

1) How long is a piece of string? Exactly 27.82cm. Anything other this is either shorter or longer than it should be. 2) Who Said an Orange should be called an Orange , and not a Window? First, windows weren't invented back then. Second, it was almost called a Green because long ago, at the...

I'm studying medicine in Germany and I would like to do a clinical elective in Malta next summer. For this, I need to write a "Letter of Motivation"....and I would greatly appreciate some help. I will send the letter to a central organization that will forward the application to various...

Medusa171 wrote:Hello, my name is Michelle, and I am a 17 year-old girl from the United States. I am a native English speaker, and have always wanted to help someone improve their English. I can help with most things, from grammar and spelling, to conversational English, to slang and...

Hello, I'm Julia, a philologist, teacher, translator and what not... I adore learning foreign languages and communicating with native speakers, but nowadays I am working in a small company with little possibilities of using my knowledge, so I try to practice languages reading books in the...

Medusa171 wrote:Hello, my name is Michelle, and I am a 17 year-old girl from the United States. I am a native English speaker, and have always wanted to help someone improve their English. I can help with most things, from grammar and spelling, to conversational English, to slang and...

hi everyone i have heard once this expression(she was the butte of the joke in college) well, i am not sure about the spelling of butte ((it just sounds like but))

Thank you very very much, Mr Micawber. Now I understand better. It's true I tend to confuse the subjunctive with the conditional. A/ after IF-CLAUSES we can have either the conditional mood or the subjunctive, is that right? 1) If I / he WERE (past subj) rich, I would /should // he would...

Hi All, I was hoping that I could get a few comments on my last paper for the semester. I am obviously not a gifted writer. Punctuation and stupid spelling mistakes seem to always hurt me. It is very long to me but perhaps not to long for many. Scott To Whom This May Concern, I’m...