By Exclamation marks, Negatives

Eladio wrote:What’s the difference between these two sentences? I read both in a dictionary and I’m confused. She wasn’t used to him away but she soon got used to it. Now she is used to seeing him once in a year. She didn’t use to him away but she soon got used to it. Now she is used to seeing...

Was that easy! and Am I hungry! are particularly American constructions. I don't think we have this inversion for an exclamation in BrE.When we use the negative, it's formally an interrogative, so if I say Isn't he clever? it's like asking Don't you think he's clever? However, we often put an...

What is your opinion about the importance of a person’s first day of school? Whether pleasant or terrible, almost everyone remembers their first day of school. (Do you really need the exclamation mark?) In the short story “The First Day”, author Edward P. Jones narrates a little girl’s...

One thing I have learned through my learning years is that overly used or misused exclamation in letter, correspondence and e-mails can cause reactions to readers. A simple “hello” signifies a greeting. A ”hello!” with exclamation gives an impression of shouting. Exclamation does cause...

hm, source code would be the html code thingummy for the webpage ure on. on Iexplaorer, u go to view, and then click on source : you should get a notepad file with lots of coding stuff. if u know code, that helps. when i started it was all jibberish to me. after intensive training in java, it is...

What’s the difference between these two sentences? I read both in a dictionary and I’m confused. She wasn’t used to him away but she soon got used to it. Now she is used to seeing him once in a year. She didn’t use to him away but she soon got used to it. Now she is used to seeing him once in a...

Hi Sonia "Humiliate" is very severe embarrassment. Imagine being told off in front of a large crowd of people. "Criticize" is to make an observation of a mistake. It can be positive or negative (usually negative). "Sarcastic" is to criticize in a cruel, mocking way, using irony. For instance,...