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Describing a Person or Place Descriptive writing has always been a headache for me. Most L2 learners, and even some native speakers, just don’t have a firm enough grasp of English to handle the sensory descriptions, so they avoid descriptive writing exercises, and if they have to do it, resort...

Hello! My name is Lyudmila Prima, and I am a BA student working on my research at the Narva College of Tartu University. The research concerns proverbs connected with various traits of human character in different cultures. I would really appreciate if you could take your time filling out the...

AmE Several verbs (suggest, recommend, ask, etc) require the subjunctive after them: I suggested she go to the library. BrE The subjunctive is avoided in such constructions, and the should + infinitive is used: I suggested she should go to the library. or ordinary present and past...

GG, I agree with your analysis. The question is whether the Cambridge example was implicitly a claim that I suggested she went to the library had the same meaning as I suggested she go to the library, in which case it must be a British thing. CJ

The D In Paris wrote:I found the following phrase in "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press: "... I suggested she went to the library .. " I've read that "I suggested she went to the library", "I suggested she should go to the library" amd "I suggested she go to the...

Well, at first glance, you say "Oh my gosh, no! It should be I suggestd she GO to the library." But that would only be true if you had been making that suggestion to "her." If, on the other hand, "she" was missing, and people were talking about where she might be, I can see this discription of...

I found the following phrase in "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press: "... I suggested she went to the library .. " Doesn't sound right to me ! What do you think ?

This is what I think should be established: Are the following sentences using “welcome” as a verb? And of the same structure? “They were cordially welcome …” “You are cordially welcome” “His don’t-care attitude is not welcome here”. I am so convinced the tone of these examples is passive...

I agree with Nona. I would like also to add something:all the Italians speak their language without doing any effort, but this doesn't mean that they speak a correct Italian, because you must know the grammar rules in order to speak in a very correct way. Anyway I guess it depends on what 'you...

Hi BelieverWere is a subjunctive in your sentences. This is probably the most common mood of the verb after as if and as though:He speaks as if / as though he knew all about it.He spoke as if / as though he had known all about it.However, it is possible to say:You look as if / as though you are...