Hello everybody ! I am trying to clear up my mind about the possible difference between the following constructions: I didn't want for her to be my wife or even a friend. 'for' is optional I didn't want that she were

Hello everybody ! I am trying to clear up my mind about the possible difference between the following constructions: I didn't want for her to be my wife or even a friend. I didn't want that she were my wife or even a friend.

Greetings, Agatha, I really need some help with finite subordinate clauses. I have understood that they appear in three different categories : adjectival, adverbial and nominal clauses. But can someone please give good example on how to

Hi all!!! I am going to apply to a university and they want me to write an essay. It should be between 2000 and 3000 words and caver the following aspects: My motivation for the MSc-programme that I chose. Why I wish to conduct this programme

Well, Anton, you do ask some challenging questions! As for your examples, I got a question only about this one: «Karen talks as if she knows what she's talking about.» Am I right that the difference between this and the subjunctive version

I way always told English is either correct or incorrect, it can't be good or bad, well or ill. You were told wrong. English has a large number of gramatically and syntactically correct ways of expressing any given idea. Some ways are better

Dear Masa, Incidentally, if you're talking about the difference between animate and inanimate, I'm not sure you can use "flower" as an example isn't a flower animate? "Two girls are in the garden" vs "There are

Which is it to be? There are countless examples of this in English. Are both equally valid? Both are common in informal English. In formal English, most careful writers and editors prefer "go to see." There is ... want to see the

I have a problem understanding the tense in English from ... that instantly comes to the mind of most native speakers? Choice (2). (snip) "Couldn't tell you" is kind of a stock phrase. Not really an idiom, and probably not commonly

Uzytkownik "John O'Flaherty" (Email Removed) napisal w wiadomosci The example doesn't entirely make sense, because you usually would take a bath before seeing someone, and taking a bath doesn't take all night, so it