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Hello Milky. Yes, your style remains, even when you post anonymously. I would define it as the type of English you use when you interview for a white-collar job. The type of English you use when you testify before Congress. The type of English you use when you mean your significant other's...

Heaven knows it does not need more adjectives. moving hand of my desktop screen, The mouse, quietly lies over the/a black sponge pad, next to the keyboard , again, dont' sepearte the subject from teh verb lying on my bright carpet.

hi, I'm a teacher in a local school in Malaysia. I teach english subject. my first degree was social science and diploma was tesl. english taught in my country is communicative. teaching english in a rural school is a great challenge.at the moment, i am considering to pursue my studies to a...

Thank you, Avangi. In my previous post, I should have used third-person verb tenses, 'sounds' and 'gives' -- proper subject-verb agreement wasn't made due to my carelessness. Going back to your request for examples of cases where I would feel something in quotes could not be...

The past perfect tense serves only to place a narration in the "more distant past," without determining its particular time or duration, as follows: "He had risen early that morning and had drunk coffee earlier than usual. – Wikipedia. There are many ways to express an idea. Why...

hmmm, didn't think about that. He actually wrote "The above assertion becomes more relevant at higher frequency" and specified nothing. I simply took it as an error that article had been omitted. It's a very techy article and their English is rough. Thanks. I may have...

I'm revising an article written in English by an Italian and I'm stuck on something he wrote: The above assertion becomes more relevant at a higher frequency where generating and converting the signal is less energy efficient. 'Is' or 'are'? I'm having a total...

Hi, In the book named "Longman English Grammar" by L. G. Alexander in the section 8 named "Prepositions, Adverb particles, and Phrasal verbs," I saw this sentence. What does 'case' mean to you? English uses more prepositions than most other European languages, partly...

I just went downtown to do some shopping and while on the tram I began to think that Swedish - or any Germanic language - can't possibly be your mother tongue. Your second Swedish sentence may perhaps be heard now and then but I consider it bad grammar. Grammatically, jag skulle ha gjort...

i have read one article from the BBC news web site. Troops have arrived in Wenchuan county at the epicentre, which was largely cut off by the quake - but heavy rain is hampering rescue operations. Elsewhere in Sichuan province, frantic efforts are being made to reach thousands of people...