But here the problem is different. The problem is not production, the problem is perception. I expect virtually all native speakers to be able to make a distinction in production : you can say NPR, or say MPR, and that's easy and only depends

Thanks for the replies. Due to assimilation, One can produce MPR instead of NPR;one can hear MPR Another example: " S n P" is heard as SMP, and is produced as SMP instead of SNP. By the way, raindoctor, are you a native speaker with

Hi, Many kind thanks in advance for anyone who can answer the following question. What part of speech is the word guitar in the sentence below: It's a noun, as you probably know. I like playing guitar. Is playing guitar a noun

Hello, Many kind thanks in advance for anyone who can answer the following question. What part of speech is the word guitar in the sentence below: I like playing guitar. Is playing guitar a noun phrase, and if so, what is that?

The hills were breathtakingly beautiful. what is "breathtakingly"? An adjective, noun, adverb ? By definition, words which modify adjectives (beautiful) are adverbs. Of course there are exceptions. (Sometimes a word or expression

Hi, I would like to know the possible meanings of the words "splibby" and "splabibs" in the first stanza of Harryette Mullen's poem below. Elsewhere on-line I found out a short story with the following dialogue

That's it. But in formal speech I wouldn't use it. I guess T he waves drive the boat. T he notion of contacting clients drives me.

Adam has not even begun a job search. But I don't know whether this is used as a verb in informal speech so that it can be treated as an infinitive.

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