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Are you sure they speak standard American or British English? It sounds like it might be from a sort of dialect of English. Where I live nobody puts that pronoun there. The only meaning it might have, to my ear, is a sort of enthusiastic emphasis,
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Hi Zazzex The following should enable to understand Mr Wordy's reply. Please note that in
British English, it should be:
There is a cat and a dog.
Below is the information extracted from two books on English usage. The first
book
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yoong liat
113 days ago
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Hi Sitifan I hope you will find the following helpful. Please note that in
British English, it should be:
There is a cat and a dog.
Below is the information extracted from two books on English usage. The first
book is on British
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yoong liat
203 days ago
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Please note that in
British English, it should be:
There is a cat and a dog.
Below is the information extracted from two books on English usage. The first
book is on British English usage, the second on American English usage.
The
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yoong liat
222 days ago
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Hi Ugur The following might interest you. Please note that in British English, it should be: There is a cat and a dog. Below is the information extracted from two books on English usage. The first book is on British English usage, the second on
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yoong liat
240 days ago
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The only thing people agree on seems to be that different from is correct. As Kooyeen said, different than is common in the USA. Different to is used in Britain. This is what the Random House Unabridged Dictionary says about different :
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cool breeze
255 days ago
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Yoong Liat I agree with you, but what can we quote as sources for this idea. I need "Proof in pudding", or I'll have pudding in face :-)) Below is the information extracted from two books on English usage. The first book is on
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yoong liat
308 days ago
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Hi Anon
Is this sentence correct? Or should it be "In Serritslev there also are a school and a grocery store".
I would write '"In Serritslev there is/are also a school and a grocery store".
Also, I hope you will
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yoong liat
341 days ago
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Hello everyone, Here I'd like to ask about the following sentence using "so that" (which is by the way a troublesome conjunction for me).The sentence is given in Swan's grammar and I don't understand why " will be "
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velimir
343 days ago
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Hi Anon
Below is the information extracted from two books on English usage. The first book is on British English usage, the second on American English usage. 1. The Right Word at the Right Time states as follows: There is an apple and pears
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