Thanks for helping me. Would you say if you have to pronounce only "tired", you'd be more consciously pronounce it with "d" sound? By "only" tired, do you mean the word "tired" in isolation? If I

Thanks for posting that, dimsumexpress. It's very interesting. I'm pleased to see that most sources seem to be endorsing the use of "should" in this context in BrE -- good news for me, as I think that's the way I

Thanks for posting that, dimsumexpress. It's very interesting. I'm pleased to see that most sources seem to be endorsing the use of "should" in this context in BrE -- good news for me, as I think that's the way I most

In many sentences that might formally require the present perfect, the simple past is fine in conversational English. For example: " I never felt this way about any girl before" -- fine in conversation, but I wouldn't use this

The full, formally correct version (at least in British English) would be: "I have never been bitten by a shark." "I was never bitten by a shark" is an abbreviated form that you may hear in conversational English.

Is there a difference? I assume you are talking about the adjectival meaning. This is an old chestnut. In British English, the two words have different meanings, or should do. See http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/alternate and

You find these kinds of things more than you purchase them. -- hard to understand, and I don't really see what you are trying to say. Do you mean "more often ", perhaps? I smoked my last cigarette before you smoked yours. I smoked

Could you please help me to complete a chat of British teenage friends with the phases that best fit it. For each gap choose either A or B. A: (1)__ B: Yeah, great! I’ve decided to (2)________________ to a new iPod. A: (3)

Hello! I speak American English, so I personally wouldn't utilize the word "holiday" in the sentences above. Regarding sentences #1 and #3, they'll sound a bit more natural with the preposition "of" or "from"

Hello, a few days ago I was watching "sex and the city" on TV and Charlotte was talking with her soon to be husband about "bottom lines" and I understood it as a way of saying which things one particularly could not tolerate.