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Hi all As far as I know HOW FAR OFF FINISHING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS HOUSE ARE WE is quite natural in British English Kind regards

Hi Teo I hope the following will be helpful In BrE 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 Right Word at the Right Time states as follows There is...

nq 1 BTW is the usage of American constructions pronunciation in British English acceptable or is it treated as a mistake nq American constructions and pronunciation are no problem in Britain And if foreigners use these nobody will really notice particularly if they have a non native accent The...

nq 1 The productive skills writing and speaking in general lag behind the passive skills reading and writing in normal second language bit of French but writing with the kind of ease you display in English in either language is beyond me nq I think it is because getting something to read in...

nq 2 Whose ideal is this nq nq 1 It is a longstanding principle in English that sentences ending in prepositions should be avoided although such constructions have been common for almost as long nq This is utter Prepositions at teh end of sentences are as old as English Latinising grammarians in...