By Adverbs, Vocabulary

1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were performed THROUGHOUT the next ten years"-- many times /every year in that periodb) "He had acted /...

Dear teachers, Would you please help me with the following difficuties? 1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were (?) performed THROUGOUT /...

I am facing a rather difficult problem; I think I am at the point where my English is indistinguishable from the native fluent English speakers. But I still find my self with limited vocabulary knowledge, I would like to learn how to describe things I see, hear, smell and feel to be able to...

Forbes wrote:Cool Breeze, your English is faultless! I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head. In English the complexity resides in the syntax. Many say that English has no "grammar" because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions, but of course if it had no grammar...

Hi. Please tell me the difference. What will you do tomorrow? What would you do tomorrow? To me, the second sentence carries the notion of asking for his willingness to do something; whereas the first one seems to be asking straight forwardly (adverb?? OK) the question of what he will do...

Please tell me the difference. What will you do tomorrow? What would you do tomorrow? To me, the second sentence carries the notion of asking for his willingness to do something; whereas the first one seems to be asking straight forward (adverb?? OK) the question of what he will do tomorrow...

Mister Micawber wrote:If the test is anything like the ETS tests (TOEFL, etc), Clive, then it tests both grammar and vocabulary. The TOEIC section offers the two types of questions in a roughly 50/50 ratio. It is among the vocabulary set. The section which this question is in consists of 18...

Well, I found that understanding the system of tenses really helped me. It's a bit cliché, but true. If you don't understand the various tenses you won't really understand much of the English language. But I guess you've already studied these, since it's really the first thing you should take a...

Grammar Geek wrote: So "to lay by" is a phrasal verb meaning "to store away"? New vocabulary for me! But anyway, when you have a phrasal verb like that (or like "look up" (as a word in a dictionary) or "write down") - do the prepositions act like normal prepositions, or because they are...

So "to lay by" is a phrasal verb meaning "to store away"? New vocabulary for me! But anyway, when you have a phrasal verb like that (or like "look up" (as a word in a dictionary) or "write down") - do the prepositions act like normal prepositions, or because they are inextricably linked to the...