Dear Sir or Madam, I read with great interst your advertisement that appered in XYZ's on-line vacancy inviting applicants for post reffered. .I would like to be considered for the same. I would like to apply for a position of

Hmm, your observation is partially correct. There's no "is" in context such as this in Chinese, contexts that involves attributes, conditions, situations etc. (there may be more, but that's all I can think of now. Maybe other

Apparently I did not explain myself well enough. If you look up a word in the dictionary like "eaten", if it is listed at all, they will reference you to the first person singular, "eat". My understanding is that this is the

Good evening, Mister Micawber, the pressure of other work has deterred me from replying to this message of yours as promptly as possible, so I intend to do it in the present post in order to shed light on some important questions.

Hi, It seems to be an indirect reference to the old philosophical question, 'How many angels can fit (or dance) on the head of a pin?' Look here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin%3F

To be honest, I was among the learners who were taught the word "auxiliary" which are used interchangeably with "modal". If this is not messy enough, some books / references even called them "helping verbs".

Without your second post asking "how come", I was so sure that you meant "the modal rules". The reason I made that comment was already explained. I thought your English level was better than to ask the elementary

Hi, What's the noun form of "domestic"? 'Domesticity'. But this is only used in reference to a person's home and family life, so it is not suitable in your context. e.g.) a total of 100 branch offices (domestic

What is the rule? I don't think there is a rule. You just have to memorize the few nouns in English that are customarily given a gender. Note that you won't be considered wrong if you use "it" to reference such a noun. For

Thank you very much for your helping! However, I still get a question. Is it possible for forget or forgot be followed by Ving? This a sentence I found in an authoritative English reference book. Li Yang Forgot seeing me before.