HSS, 'had it handled' is an example of a verb phrase with a causative use of have in the past. Since the meaning is causative, it is regarded as dynamic by most grammarians, or, in other words, using your term, have in this particular

The phenomenon you're referring to is called ' tapped t '.

I'm unclear as to when do we pronounce T as d. I heard rules like t between two vowels is supposed to be pronounced as "d", but what about par t y, shif ty , for example?

Resident: Scottish Highlands Ah, well! You can't expect me to answer from the viewpoint of this man! I thought your interests lay mostly with American English anyway. how do they know if something sounds odd? Sounds odd to who? Kooyeen! The

I don't use that website either because it seems to pronounce words with an annoying posh accent, and there are no phonetic transcriptions. I just need the transcription because I already have my way of pronouncing each phoneme, so I usually

If there is any difference at all, it is that 'aim to' still retains a whiff of pioneer American English (' Ah aims ta marry thet li'l gal, come hell er high water! "; hence it may be a bit more casual.

But to some people, that sounds wrong, doesn't it?-- It doesn't sound 'wrong'; it sounds hyper-correct, i.e. the writer thought he should use it there to be correct...but he shouldn't. "Speakers of British English usually say it is a long

Thank you very much for the prompt reply. So, if the line is in the present tense, you say "It has been exaxtly five years since her father died" but not so in the past tense? Um, someone has just introduced me to a Longman link

Is "fresher" commonly used to mean "freshman" or maybe "beginner"? I would like to know because it is used in here in Japan. Is it one of those words we made up or is it actually used? At least it doesn't seem to