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Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Cool Breeze 1 yr 47 days ago Nouns Verbs Tenses Grammar Plurals Negatives Spelling Pronouns Pronunciation Genders Relative pronouns
What your name?

Hi,what your name? What you waiting for?I don't know if this is a matter of pronunciation, but it's strange. I often hear seantences like those as:Whuch your name? - Instead of "what's your name"Whuch you waiting for? - Instead of "what are you waiting for"Now, I think it can't be a matter of...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Kooyeen 1 yr 51 days ago American English Verbs Accents Pronunciation American accents Accent Training
Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

Hello, I am an English teacher who never thought he would post a message on the internet, but it just seemed so appropriate. Basically, English is so difficult because of its innumerable exceptions to rules. A student told me the other day, "at least when you see a new word in Spanish, you know...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Anonymous 1 yr 57 days ago Pronunciation Verbs Learn English Modals Modal verbs
Re: Same spelling different pronunciation

If you know the formal international pronunciation rules and can read the transkripts in the dictionaries, it will not be a problem I guess. Just know whether it is used as verb, noun or adjective.

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Doll 1 yr 60 days ago Pronunciation Verbs Nouns Spelling
Re: clothes = pronunciation??

Is it true that clothes is pronunced without the th sound??To return to the original question: Kekel, Just in case there was some misunderstanding, clothes is pronounced without the th sound when it is a noun! As a verb, the th sound is present in all forms: I clothe, you clothe, he, she,...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by CalifJim 1 yr 66 days ago Pronunciation Verbs Nouns

Why are the fat written words wrong? Firstly, I want to enlarge upon the common reason. = to elaborate On the morrow day=The following day There are lots of worthless and baseless cruel murders. = groundless Both of the main characters= the two main characters Lead...

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Chevy Bel Air 01 1 yr 84 days ago

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Re: spoken English

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote:I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I never said it's "non-English", I said it was ""non-BBC...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Tanit 1 yr 103 days ago American English Grammar Verbs Difference between British English Dialects Universities Accents Pronunciation
Re: 'you should or should you or would you or you would' thank you .

A. and D. are correct. These are not questions, so you need a period, not a question mark, at the end. The idea is that you are simply stating that you are wondering. You are not actually asking a direct question about the pronunciation of 'sakura'. Because the question is not direct, you...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 1 yr 110 days ago Verbs Question marks Direct questions Pronunciation

Re: Origining?

Hi, Francesca, I found "origin" as a verb in the OED online. I suspect it's actually rare; anyway, here is what they say: ETYMOLOGY: MEANING: trans. = ORIGINATE v. 1. QUOTATIONS: 1640 in Acta Parl. Scotl. (1816) V. 300/1 And makeing no kynd of...

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Tanit 1 yr 136 days ago

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Re: How to reach agreement?

Doll wrote: I agree with you even in our pronounciation exam we were asked to find the place of articulation of the middle voices in given words. Doll, I think Milky is not talking about pronunciation, but about verbs. ( Middle voice : "an intransitive verb that appears active but...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Tanit 1 yr 138 days ago Verbs Pronunciation

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Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

What your name?

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

Re: Same spelling different pronunciation

Re: clothes = pronunciation??

a couple of questions

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Re: 'you should or should you or would you or you would' thank you .

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