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Hi, When a person is trying to use the phrase 'a little' or the word 'little' as an adverb or as a phrase, how can he do so correctly when both means pretty much the same, at least to me, to mean 'a small extent'? little -- means 'a small extent' as an adverb a little or a little bit --...

Maverick9211 wrote:I can't differeniate between abt nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. I am not very bad at English. I do understand English very well. I can speak English, but not in fluently. I can't write it very well. Let's make do it this way: You give me some topic and I will...

Believer wrote: 1. OK, but I think, this take on looking from the positive polarity view point and negative polarity view point fails somewhat when they are used as adverbs like this. I speak English a little. I think you can say, "I speak English little," but is awakward and sounds...

Hi, Please check if my reasoning is correct. a little and little are ususally used in front of uncountable nouns to signal the amount in possession and they respectively are coming from the positive polarity and negative polarity view points. I have a little or little money -- Here, it is...

Davkett wrote: I see now, Pastel, that I had been intrigued by the wrong thing... though the wrong thing is pretty interesting, too, isn't it? Do you finally have satisfaction on the main point of your inquiry? Personally, I can't feel much difference between 1 and 2, and 3 and 4. If I...

Intriguing. I would agree that the adverbs in: 1. 'The sky is probably blue'; 2. 'The sky is sometimes blue' modify the whole sentence in each case. I would agree too that the adverb in: 3. 'The sky is fairly blue' can be regarded as part of 'Y', if 3 is regarded as 'X = Y'. But I would not...

Hello again, Mask. I musunderstood your question, but I see what you mean now. Just like many other English words, "than" belongs to more than one class. It is a preposition in sentences like "She is taller than me", and it is a conjunction in sentences like "She is taller than I (am)." In other...