By Commas, Accents

Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...

First of all, thanks for the replies Second, I downloaded a trial version of some other programme, which is of much better quality. http://demo.cermak.cx/img/mrstickle.wav - Mr Tickle (1,16) NEW VERSION! ... some1 said I was speaking to fast so I tried to slow down.In addition I added two...

You're talking about the comma after months, correct? I think both work: - no comma: strong connection between the two parts, the accent is on spend overcoming - comma: what's after the comma would become a bit paranthetical, secondary; the accent is on spend (some time, six months)

Anonymous wrote: Hello, I am just trying to find out if you put a comma before all quotes???? According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the EHR is, “a longitudinal collection of patient-centric healthcare information available across providers, care settings,...

Well this conversation is ancient, but maybe you get a tickler when someone replies adn will find this. The guy's accent is crap. I'm Canadian but I'm from Toronto where our accent is *almost* standard American (or what we called in the film business Mid-west Flat) and I can tell you a few...

Hi, I listened to your reading and it doesn't seem as bad as you think. Your accent is very American rather than Asian. You are a bit hesitant in a couple of places but most people are when they are learning a language. You are easily understood. If you look at the punctuation, that will help...

yeah water is one of the more difficult words to say with an american accent because the brits say it as "war ter" the americans... i think its "wha tuh" there arent many british sounds like that, its like the russians they use lots of sounds that just dont exist in english as do the chinese...

Yes; 'blimey' has become quite fashionable. But only in a certain tone of voice; and it must have inverted commas now. If someone tells you a startling fact, you look—startled: then you say, after a pause, and perhaps with a slightly upgraded accent, 'Blimey!' In the old 'Blimey' (Michael...

In BrE, it's often said with inverted commas. I always thought of it as 'terse American-backwoodsman-speak'. No Chinese or American Indian associations. (Admittedly, I have never been quite sure what a 'backwoodsman' is.) I notice that it's never said in a mock-pidgin accent. I think you would...

My understanding is the same as yours, MH. Coordinate clauses when fully expressed should be separated by a comma: 'She earned high marks, and she was a good student.' When the coordinate clauses are not fully expressed and share a subject, no comma is necessary: 'She earned high marks and was...