By Clauses, Vocabulary

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the complement...

"Grammar and exercises are only requirements of the syllabus, not of learning a language. Did you learn the grammar of your mother-tongue when you were acquiring it? Most of you may still not know the grammar of your mother-tongue but you speak it effortlessly." If grammar means identifying...

I am still translating(with the purpose of enriching my vocabulary) that very challengeable article... Check out the underlined part. I surrender. What does it mean, anyway? If you would rephrase that clause, I would be grateful :-)At 17, Culkin married actress Rachel Miner; by 20, he was...

Looks good to me - just a couple more suggestions: and working environment. But I hope to improve - delete 'But'. ZZZ provides the opportunity to achieve the goals I expect from a stay abroad - more natural to say something like 'ZZZ will allow me to fulfill my goals in studying abroad'. You...

Hi, Are there any guides or rules in regard to the words, phrases or clauses in parentheses and those parts happen to be a part of a sentence? eg, ... can have many variations (post-participle, time of day, vocabulary).

Just out of curiosity, Mr. P, how do you distinguish a native speaker who's learned a non-standard form of English from a decent non-native speaker? (e.g. How can you tell if a speaker born in India, Singapore or other Asian countries is native?) MrPedantic wrote: 1. Discrepancies of register....

Hello EU Here are some things that occur to me: 1. Discrepancies of register. A non-native speaker's English may be impeccable, for the most part; but slight failures of tone or register are most noticeable, in impeccable English. For instance, the non-native may use a word which a native...

I have to hand in the reports tomorrow. Could you please run a quick check through them? Thanks loads!!! A: When asked to make a sentence with When J~ , J will ~, Harry sometimes gets confused with the order of two events happening and forgets to add s after verbs when they are placed...

Hi, What added particular piquancy to that feat was that the goalkeeper was a substitute for the injured first-team goalie. Is there any words missing in this subject " what added particular piquancy to that feat " ? No. It's a noun clause. What he did is bad ? you see there is " he " But in...