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Re: Standard spoken English

Something to chew on:THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language,and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult,educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Anonymous 41 days ago Nouns Universities Grammar Plurals Expressions British English English grammar Negations Singular nouns
Re: would

A) By June, her diet was limited to bread and water. Anything else would induce the abdominal pain. I haven't studied English grammar as systematically as you probably have, but to me the sense is 3 (repetition in the past). Look at this alternative: B) By June, her diet was limited to...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mr Wordy 53 days ago Grammar Plurals Numbers British English English grammar
British English grammar help!

I'm not sure whether this is of British grammar or not: All courses at the college are offered on a full-time basis unless__ indicated a) otherwise b) diffently The answer is a but I wonder how it is different from b

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Belly 122 days ago Grammar British English English grammar
Re: Native-speaker intuition.

Hi MrPedantic, You wrote: On reflection, I'm still not quite clear about the ways in which native speaker intuition could be "unreliable", in a real sense. Does it mean "not in accord with standard English", for instance? Yes, I suppose you could say that. That is, when I say native speaker...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Englishuser 1 yr 277 days ago Grammar British English English grammar

Re: :::::: HOW TO SPEAK AND LEARN EGNLISH ::::

Part I: Want to 'neutralise' your accent? Many deserving candidates lose out on job opportunities because of their vernacular accent. Can I 'neutralise' my accent? Yes, you can. All you need to do is train yourself to speak English as comfortably and perfectly as you speak your mother...

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In the subject rectangle bar above, I have written some things that I have sometimes seen used--in American English or in British English--as a reference to a book title, author, and circa or copyright date. If using proper English grammar, how should braces, brackets, and parentheses be used...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Blue Lantern 2 yr 83 days ago American English Grammar Dates British English English grammar
Very many

Practical English Usage by Michael Swan (Oxford University Press) says....." many... can be modified by... very. Very many is used mostly in questions and negatives." I would add that it is also used in answers, and for emphasis. "Have you had many boyfriends?" "Well, not very many!" So,...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by TeacherBrian 2 yr 242 days ago Grammar Negatives British English Universities English grammar
Re: The use of the genitive with inanimate objects.

Paco -- I'm sorry English is so frustrating! A few comments come to mind: First, I can see how it seems to you that the current chaotic state of English is a result of generations of laziness regarding grammatical rules, but I would prefer to think of it this way: the current flexibility of...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by khoff 2 yr 243 days ago Grammar Nouns Numbers British English Speak english English grammar Genitives Cookies Speaking English
Closings

Just my take on it. Let's look at the structure of an e-mail or a letter for that matter. Simply said you have 3 parts. 1. opening or greeting 2. body 3. closing or ending NOTE: greeting means hello and not good-bye. As was pointed out " yours faithfully " is out of style but it still is...

ESL Essay, Writing World by My2sense 2 yr 254 days ago Grammar Paragraphs Regards Difference between Yours sincerely Yours faithfully British English Business letters English grammar Warm regards
Re: That annoying 's'

In British English (I cannot speak for American English) it is acceptable to treat collective nouns as plural. English grammar sometimes looks to the sense, rather than the form. Collective nouns may be felt by English speakers to be plural for the simple reason that they consist of more than one...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Forbes 2 yr 324 days ago American English Grammar Verbs Plurals Nouns British English English grammar