>>I am a Chinese, teaching English in China. Hope I can learn from you all. There is no plural "you" in English, except in the South Eastern US States, where they sometimes say you-all or ya'll. By ending your sentence with

I see that native speakers "just guess" very often. That's the general idea. Part of "hearing" what people say -- in any language -- is anticipation. The more familiar you are with a language, the better you can anticipate

"The phrase 'caught on camera' could n't be more appropriate, as a lardy sweat-bucket of a bus driver shows he has all the self control of Amy Whitehouse going out for a swift half. "Watch as the dastardly kids torment the

In the States, we come up with new lingos and idioms all the time, no? I don't know. I've never seen "no" used as a sentence tag that way, for example. I was told that "yes?" would sound like "mexican" or

"Be you sick?" is not standard English. It could be a dialect form or an archaic usage. I understand it to mean the same as "Are you sick?". "No better from" is not right if you mean "no better than".

Hi Misty77 Your first two sentences are basically meaningless to me. Perhaps the expression "go for a toss" is limited to a particular dialect of English. To me, your third sentence means that your washing machine is either broken or

NSEspeaker: My car needs washed. SE speaker: What? I do not understand you. There was a posting recently exactly with this syntax. The people who commented never said that the NSE line would not be understood, only that it was characteristic

"A sweat" is idiomatic and describes the physical condition of being sweaty. Example: I worked up a sweat in my morning exercise class. The use of an article before non-count nouns is idiomatic - sometimes we use it, and sometimes

Who has pretty much replaced whom is American dialect speech but technically, whomever is correct here. Who is for use with the subject of a phrase. Whom is for the object of a phrase. In the example 'I' is the subject and it is the

("well" is an adjective here). No, 'well' is an ADVERB here, just as it likes to be. In this sentence, well describes feel, the verb, and that is why the ADVERB is the correct choice. Adjectives generally do not