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Hello ,,,here is some Medical Shortcuts ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education CSA Clinical Skills Assessment ECFMG Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates FSMB Federation of State Medical Boards GME Graduate Medical Education LCME Liaison Committee on...

Dear Howard Leigh Ph.D., If we are going to get into silly mudslinging battles over the word "often" and claiming illigitimacy of posts due to lack of name, qualifications, and misspellings then I suggest that you start with the very word misspelling which contains two of the...

My take. I've tried to go for a natural conversational British English style.Remember that there are usually many different ways of expressing the same thing. Also, contractions are much more natural for spoken language. A: Let's go over there and see whether they rent kayaks. B: It...

Words What is the longest English word containing no letter more than once? There are two 15-letter words that we know of: uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics. What is the longest English word? We do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of...

Hi, Yes, you're right in thinking that these phrases wouldn't usually sound natural to a native speaker. On the other hand, if two Asian people are having a conversation in English like this, and they understand each other, that's not a bad thing, is it? Ok I'll try to illustrate base on this...

Ok I'll try to illustrate base on this sentence. "Jim, you seemed to put on weight compared to last time." > last time here could mean the last time I saw Jim (a time which is understood between me & Jim), > It could also mean when I couldn't remember the exact time when I saw Jim he...

Grandmother's making me a new blue blanket. Can you tell me about the " 's " in Grandmother's? I'm confused about the use of the apostrophy. From the www.Dr.Grammar.org The apostrophe is used for three purposes: to indicate the omission of one or more letters (can't, don't) or figures...

If this is for the US, don't use "condominia." Apparently it is a word, but I have NEVER heard it before. Much as I don't usually use Google to validate, there are 21.5 million hits for condominiums, and 13.5 thousand for condominia. You don't need the "or not" in the sentence. Arvsworld, just...

Hello Ben Ben9108 wrote:1. The provisional items included in the maintenance works are 'less' urgent compared to the fixed items."Compared to" is a fixed (idiomatic) phrase, so we'd better take it as it stands without analyzing it grammatically. But please note that "less urgent compared to" is...

Thanks very, very much. In the peom, he also mentioned eternality : Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May; And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often...