By Determiners, Conversations

Kooyeen wrote:Hi,I don't think grammar in writing is different from grammar in speech at all. You can write the way you speak and speak the way you write. So... what is that QCA really doing? Nothing, I guess. Playing cards instead of working, LOL. I agree in some part, Kooyeen. I think that...

In ordinary writing and conversation, we normally use the personal adjectives with parts of the body. Grammatically these are determiners. Continue with your right foot, then with your left foot. However, in telegraphic style, used for telegrams (which barely exist anymore), newspaper...

I know Paco through many on-line conversations, so I know he is more than capable of comprehending a complex English sentence. The question is subtle and requires some subtlety to answer it. I'm sure, from my past experience with this student, that he understands at the level I have given the...

Actually, Demi, mine is more 'bookish' (formal) than your version, which is more common in conversation and informal writing. 'There' and 'it' as preparatory subjects do just that: prepare the listener, attracting his/her attention to the rest of the utterance, just as we often say 'hey!' to...