I doubt I can visit you this evening as tomorrow I and my brother have a geography That word order would not be common, Alex. You should write "my brother and I" instead.

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your

Word order is simply different for -ing forms used as gerunds compared to perfect finite verbs.

Woow! How clear! Gotcha! Thanks! But, ... what's worng with the second sentence? I think the next sentence is correct. Bob blamed Sue because she had not prepared the eauipment. In the sentence above, the third

The only time I can think of that you would hear "present persons" is with the little tag phrase. "The people who work at this company are dolts, present persons (company) excluded, of course." Your sentence involves

All the persons present at the meeting were in favour of the proposal. But why is not the other one correct? Do you have a grammar explanation? Thank you

All the persons present at the meeting were in favour of the proposal. All the present persons at the meeting were in favour of the proposal. Is the word order correct? Are the both sentences ok?

If I understand your post correctly, Anon, you think there is a difference in the level of formality. However, I don't think formal vs informal is really a factor here. I'd say it's primarily just a question of which word order is more

Hi Anon You can write something such as this: - I can speak English. You can also write something such as this: - I can also speak French. That is the commonly used word order. Using the word "also" before the word "can"

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