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Monika asked, in {http://www.englishforums.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=70995} Could you please tell me when to use me or I? I received the following message from an Australian native speaker: ...This is exciting, not only for Sue but for you and I too .. (I thought it was me in this case)...

It's important to know how to drive a car that has A manual transmission. To know how to drive a car that has A manual transmission is important. Knowing how to drive a car that has A manual transmission is important. A wee tiny point. In all three sentences, 'manual transmission' needs...

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...

I'm a Belgian teacher who's in the middle of correcting some writing tests. My pupils had to write a newspaper article (using given words and adding stuff and conjugating verbs). Some pupils came up with this sentence: First he climbed in a tree and jumped from branch to branch. (The...

Hi Mr. M. or other Englishpros, I'm still puzzled with your enlightenment. Please elaborate on your viewpoints more. 1. day line - what does line mean here? Do you consider day as a line? like considering time as a line, such as time line? 2. night line, such as night line news - what...

I am not a native speaker, but I know a little about English grammar; but I sometimes have some problems with determined constructions. I would like you to answer the following questions: 1. Once I write the following phrase to a friend: I doubt you to write the article on time. He said this...

Kit: But this only applies to non-living things. For living beings, I must say "Tom gave me advice on how to maintain a guitar." JTT: Likely a 'gave', Kit. But living or non-living makes no difference as far as I can see. Of course, if the speaker sees this as a one time offer of advice,...

I read on the Internet about the discovery of Saturn's rings over the last four hundred years. I found it interesting and confusing that the verb tense in the article varies between the past simple and the present simple. I would be very happy if you could tell me why. Here are some of the...

Hello Teachres! IS an article "the" is essential part before the superlative degree of an adverb like an adjective. 1.HE jumped the highest of all the boys. 2.He jumbed highest of all the boys. If the usage of "the" is mandatory here ,then why these two given below are correct? ...

"We'll send you them back" is not a particularly felicitous construction! For the most idiomatic patterns, you'll need one of these: We send the letter to John. We send John the letter. We send it to John. (Not: We send John it.) We send the letter to him. We send him the letter. ...