Dear Forum Readers, I am a second year bachelor student. I am applying for an exchange programme. Would someone be so kind to give my motivation letter small review and check it on grammar, spelling, fluency, etc.. Thank you very very much!

This is a very cool idea! Just be careful that you're not researching words that people don't use in natural daily conversation. For example "savvy" is a popular term used in print media - articles talking about fashion, music,

. I keep one myself for particularly odd English locutions that I run across. It is a much more meaningful way to organize thoughts and learn lexes than the traditional word list. Here is some of what STEVEN BLOOMBERG has to say: "You need

I have always heard in conversation - that must be him / her on the phone. Of course we say:He is on the phone now. Grammatically, "that must be him" it is not strictly correct, since the case of a pronoun after "be" is

"Corpora" - that is large collections of various kinds of text, such as newspaper articles, fiction, scientific articles, recorded conversation and radio programmes - show that as a past subjunctive "was" is a very frequent

The past progressive casts the reading and the saying as activities rather than as events. (The equivalent events would have been expressed in the simple past. I read. Paula said. ) Activities are more personal; events are more objective, more

He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. (Sir A. Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia) In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was

Good day! Hi there! i just would like to know if Lingustics can be used as a tool for everyday's conversations, public speaking and many more; how does it benefit us and what are its effects to us. Thankyou. I just would like to sahre

1. The use of the indefinite article implies that more than one shop are involved. On second thought, I'm trying to envisage a conversation with "it's a little shop of my own"... Perhaps it could be used even if you have only

What do you mean by missing article? Aren't these similar? Look at the context of the original statement, Anon. Then repeat the conversation aloud to yourself. MrP