Hi Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone. And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion

Hello! I have a question on the phrase "along these lines". When I searched the internet, what I could find was only the use and meaning of that phrase, but the paraphrase was in English. Although I found some webpage saying

It was the fitting into Confucian patterns of conduct and of family and community life rather than blood kinship or ancestry which labeled one as civilized and as Chinese. The sentence is correct and your analysis is right. It is a preparatory

Hi everyone, In the following sentences below, what do you think the subject of the last sentence is? Just "It" or the words "which labeled one as civilized and as Chinese"? I'm confused whether the

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

(1) I feel embarrassed when we go out because my clothes are so cheap (inexpensive) compared with his (expensive clothes). (2) My salary is very low. = I don't earn much. (3) You have no taste in clothes. = You don't know how to choose

Could anybody correct the sentences below for me? Everything is dirt cheap at the supermarket. I felt losing face when going out with him, as I think my clothes(?) looked really cheap. (I mean anything he wears, including his shoes, pants,

I would appreciate it, if anybody could help me with this. What does the last sentence mean? Especially the underlined part? Thanks a million. Basically, it indicates that we had major imbalances build beginning in the turn of the

But he gave me an F minus for the following essay, saying that it was "heresy", totally slating my work , as though it was written in Chinese instead of English. I don't understand the phrase in bold -- I suspect it's just

Hello! I am a university student from Russia. We have to write quite a lot of essays as part of our English course. However, every term we get a new teacher, this is just how the system works, and all teachers are quite different in how they