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.Oh, I can always find something else (but I may have messed up your formatted columns):Lesson PlanPreparation Level : Elementary Lesson Length: 45 minutes Objective: To be able to use the Past Simple question forms and short answers. Target Language: did + subject + base form of verb ( Did...

I don't think either one works. In making this sort of a comparison I believe the adjectives should be parallel. Noisier (check spelling) is a comparative. Quiet and lonely are not. Make them both one way or the other: The city is noisy, but the village is quiet. The city is noisy but...

Hi All, Many thanks for replying.I have now amended my application and would really appreciate it if someone could check it for spelling, grammar and punctuation.This application is really important to me and i would appreciate any help at all: Question 1 - Done Working with people of...

Your instinct is right--the phrase refers to "last year's figure" but the word "figure" is understood and so dropped. So grammatically the spelling should be year's. However, it has become common especially in conversationto drop the 's, and that has slipped into...

hey david i would be very glad if i could help u in your english..and i must say i have studied spanish for 4 years as a second language but i have failed to actually learn spanish:)) i mean i could merely or close enough try to understand someone talking in spanish ohh and thats ofcourse if...

Lookin' good. In d/ we would drop the "a." The "my" sort of takes its place. This is a hat. This is my hat. This is a car. This is my car. re BTW, In certain special situations - let's say you and your supervisor are making up your schedule for next month - he might say, "Okay, this...

CalifJim wrote:I read somewhere that Mario Pei, the linguist, tried to learn a different language every year. He supposedly claimed that Vietnamese was the most difficult. CJ I disagree with the linguist Mario Pei not because I am a Vietnamese. It is because I have seen, in my...

Hello, all! It’s my first post here. I’m Russian writer or maybe I think that I am a writer. In any case I published some poems, some stories and two novels in Russian newspapers and magazines, but it didn’t make me famous or rich. I am learning English today. Now I am posting here the first...

Hi KooyeenThere is nothing to forgive! I am certainly not in the least offended by your post. In fact, I enjoyed reading it tremendously! I even agree with you to some extent on some of the points you made. I am the first person to admit that my knowledge of English isn't as good as that of a...

Never used it in an actual conversation. I know the spelling just in case I have to write it in a dictation.