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J Lewis wrote:As I said before, we English-speakers do equally bad things, and worse, in our pronunciation of foreign words. The tendency is to pick on a particular transformation and apply it everywhere, just to show that we know "things are not as they seem" at first sight, without taking the...

Mmm... I truly think that all this "languages' difficulties" deppend mainly about three things: - First; your mother language. Mine is Spanish, and I'm fluent in French, Italian and Portuguese (and also English... at least, I do my best...), and all of them belong to the same family, so, the...

Sometimes in reading we come across an unfamiliar word, a word that we have never heard pronounced. Native speakers and foreign learners alike, we may be tempted — rather than looking it up in a dictionary — not only to infer its meaning from the context but also to infer its pronunciation. But...

Yes, your use of useful is correct. Let me ask you something. Do you have a dictionary? If you are going to study English, you should have a dictionary. I have noticed that you post words and more words and ask for meanings. To master English you will need at least 50,000 words. This is...

Mister Micawber wrote:Song lyrics are an unending violation of English, but this is not one-- the phrase, if you have transcribed it accurately, represents the pronunciation of what you see, which is the noun-clause object of tell in the sentence: When you visit me, tell me what you see. so it...

Song lyrics are an unending violation of English, but this is not one-- the phrase, if you have transcribed it accurately, represents the pronunciation of what you see, which is the noun-clause object of tell in the sentence: When you visit me, tell me what you see.

People have found this text useful so I am repeating it here in this entirety with error fixed (there are several posts combined in it) This is the effort of Mister Micawber as well. The rules given in many textbooks are based not on the general rules but on the frequent omissions. (advice is...

I am not trying to defend myself, only to give some more examples where plural and singular of the abstract nouns are important holiness - the state or quality of being holy holiness - spiritual or religious leader (usually the Pope or other high bishop or episcope, written as (His)...

The two terms basically mean the same thing and are often used interchangeably. However Merriam-Webster dictionary distinguishes between the two. Note that outside the context of computers, notebook can mean a book with which you use to take notes by hand.note·book...

Being a student of French myself, I'd say English does not compare in terms of grammatical complexity or evevn gendered nouns. One obstacle in learning English is the fact that English is not phonetic, so the variations in pronunciation are difficult to memorize. Take "through," "enough," and...