(especially not the second one). Hi, thanks. Yeah, the second one clearly needs a context first (otherwise, how CAN you imagine anything? LOL) But the first one should be ok as a way to introduce something, why not? We use it this way in Italian,

"Be you sick?" is not standard English. It could be a dialect form or an archaic usage. I understand it to mean the same as "Are you sick?". "No better from" is not right if you mean "no better than".

I always thought you could rhyme Orange with Losenge, depending on your spoken dialect of course!

In Malay, it is " buang air besar" , is it correct to say "pass motion" in English ? 'pass motion' is not the correct English term for going to the toilet to defecate. I think it is Singlish.

Hi Misty77 Your first two sentences are basically meaningless to me. Perhaps the expression "go for a toss" is limited to a particular dialect of English. To me, your third sentence means that your washing machine is either broken or

Both Egyptians and most Iraqis (not the Kurds in the North) speak Arabic. They have different "dialects" though, and they are quite different. Iraqis can easily understand Egyptians because of the large film- and music industry of

As an ESL teacher, I have run into the dynamic-stative continuous form problem regularly. My colleagues and I disagree. The way I explain this concept to my students is by trying to clarify that there are two kinds of grammar in the English

What if there was a time machine that could take you back in time about 1000 years. Say it dropped ...
or say. First off, the "English" of 1000 AD was more closely related to German than Middle

<By all means let local varieties develop, but keeping learners away from Standard English as a matter of policy is nothing short of illiberal. > I thought it was more of a case of the Standard English speaking world keeping ESL

<The people who commented never said that the NSE line would not be understood, only that it was characteristic of a regional dialect.> You need to look beyond this tiny forum. <Since then, I've encountered many regional