"China is far" is the same structure as "she is beautiful" which is SUBJECT + verb (is) + adjective. So "far" is adjective. This is my approach toward adverbials which may or may not conform to the

Hello, I'm a current ESL student. I have a quiet discusion about the use of sinonims. The sentences are this: "a person's or a group's usual food choices and __." Unlike individual food plans, the diets of whole

I agree with raindoctor. You can't learn like babies do, and some kind of natural acquisition is only possible when your English is already good enough for you to understand the context. ESL students in school are artificially picking up the

I think we should keep the discussion in the context of "english as a second language". I think idioms can be very difficult for the individual whose native tongue is not English. It can be very difficult to teach the meaning of these

Dear all, I requested from my tenant 14% increment for the rent of my appartment (according to the Cyprus law). He refused and I suggested to suffering 4% as to reduce the increment from 14% to 10%. Then, he accepted my suggestion and I

What damage do you think such explanations of the past tense have done to ESL students learning? Negligible damage, I think. That statement alone is not sufficient to influence learners in general, taken out of context. To have an effect,

I would not hesitate to use your sentence in the right context: let's say, following a discussion in which there was difficulty in finding a solution to how we might cooperate to finalize some plan. (Sorry about the monster sentence.) The ESL

Hi, Is the following mixed conditional sentence correct, with respect to the tense and meaning, especially in the first part of the sentence. Now, I know that we have 3 iron-clad contionals that all ESL teachers teach but as far as I hear there

Hello ESL community, Is the following mixed conditional sentence correct, with respect to the tense and meaning, especially in the first part of the sentence. Now, I know that we have 3 iron-clad contionals that all ESL teachers teach but as

History of English Language-Funny or reality? In the beginning, there was an island off the coast of Europe. It had no name, for the natives had no language, only a collection of grunts and gestures that roughly translated to Hey!Gimme!, and