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Hi Vince, Your original questions: 1. although / thoughIs there a difference in meaning between these two words, or is though simply and abbreviation of although? 2. until / tillSame as 1; can you use these two words interchangeably? 3. what's the difference between these two sentences:...

Yes! With that colon, I wouldn't be confused at all. Anyway, thank you, everyone. And one more question. How do you native people speakers sense the difference between these? 1:True listening is being open to something new. 2:True listening is to be open to something...

Well, think "I love to swim" is incorrect. But you can say "I'd love to awim" which means that you fancy swimming at this moment. You could also say "I like to swim" but this conveys the sense that you consider it a good idea or consider it sensible to swim whereas "I like swimming" is simply...

Hi people! Would anyone be so kind to explain the difference between these two verbals? Here are some examples which I find confusing: 1. A walking stick: Is "walking" to be taken as a gerund here for it is "a stick for walking", and not used attributively? 2. Speaking parrots: Is "speaking"...

Hi, From "yet", I suppose that Smauel Johnson would prefer the concrete, the natural, and the spontaneous in a work of literature to the abstract, the formal, and the regulated. I wouldn't say he 'prefers' it. I'd say he recognizes that it can have equal importance. But how dose "the concrete,...

A sentence may take the form of a single clause or be formed from several clauses. The typical clause has a noun phrase for a subject and a verb phrase for a predicate. The verb phrase may have another noun phrase or two embedded within it which serves as direct object or indirect object. ...

1) In their most literal uses, "get out of" means to exit -- or cause to exit -- from an interior space, and "get off (of)" means to leave -- or remove from -- a surface. So you get out of a car or out of a house, or get something or someone out of a car or house. These are interiors,...

at last, i understand the difference between "Gerund" and "Present Participle". Working is good for you. working = gerund Tom working in the library is my friend. working = present participle right? Thank you very much

It's interesting that the formation has such currency. I wonder what speakers have to gain by using it, if it's simply incorrect. I myself feel a difference between 'his whispering' and 'him-whispering', for instance, which may well be a useful difference; and while the former is undoubtedly a...

Hello Mr P again (1) We watched him cooking the dinner. (2) I don't like him cooking in my kitchen. Yes I feel some structural difference between (1) and (2). Maybe we can paraphrase (1) to "We watched him be cooking the dinner". But we can't rephrase (2) to "I don't like him be cooking in my...