You definitely would not use "that" if you are referring to something that you know is fact. Hi, was there a mistake there? Did you mean "You definitely would not use IF"? Well, what I was saying is that I suspected that

Technically, yes, it should be "quickly". "Come quick" is (to me) idiomatic enough to pass in conversation without leaping out as a glaring error. "breathing heavy" isn't, and is wrong according to standard

Now, as for your second question... Past simple vs. Present perfect. First know this. English only has 2 tenses! even though most people think it has many more. The two tenses are present, and past. The other aspects are created using combinations

David schrieb: Or maybe it's not? If you've been following the thread, ... meaning whilst at the same time understand the "s-less" genitive. H9owever, it might have helped if after giving the dialect version you had provided a

David schrieb: David schrieb: I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if ... could interpret for those of us who don't come Yorkshire. Well, even the trolling "blue sow" managed to pick out that I'd made a transposition error

David schrieb: But it's not irrelevant. You might easily say, e.g., "the ... of that and, e.g., "my sister wife husband has gout"? I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if only because AFAIK it is still impossible for your

@reader2.panix.com: Why do you say that? Which? Do I think he got himself arrested just for publicity? .. No, not really. Do I think the 'scandel' ... his I've seen. I do think Passion was an overbudgeted art-house flick that would

A mistake I hear English speakers make is "It was so fun," instead of saying "It was so much fun," as if the word 'fun' is an adjective, instead of a noun. ?? At least in my dialect, which is close to General American,

Unfortunately students who take IELTS exhibit the same poor speech skills, and that already includes a speaking test (for which I'm an examiner). I gather that pronunciation is one of the criteria for marking and assessment...

^^ There are many sites which explain usenet abbreviations. We talk a different dialect of English here. I think Molly has a fair point here. After all our newcomer wants to learn English 'as she is spoke' ... enough already when you are a