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Kekel, are you considering HELP and AID as nouns or verbs? As verbs, they are used differently -- you help someone do something, but you aid someone in doing something. I think "help" is much more common in conversation -- "Could you help me open this jar?" "Thanks for all your help -- I...

I agree that this might not be the most typical example for the usage of these two tenses, however to me the past perfect continuous does something in this sentence that neither the past continuous nor the past perfect simple can do: It suggests duration and also that, although the car-washing...

-- Do you want cookies or chocolates? -- The latter. Yes. It's acceptable. However, the former and the latter are usually reserved for expository writing, in an essay, for example, and they are not used in everyday conversation very much. Used in everyday conversation, these expressions...

Forget expressions like greater than 20 cars. Use more. Here's what you need. less butter, less sugar, less bread, less trouble, less sunshine, less energy fewer cookies, fewer cars, fewer pencils, fewer people, fewer problems more butter, more sugar, more bread, more trouble, more...

Pastsimple wrote:Now something that can have some practical usage:Imagine I've just baked some cookies. I want to offer some to my sister and now I'm holding out the plate. What can I say?Try some (of these cookies). --> I would say this...Have some. --> ...or maybe this.Take some. -->...

Dear Members! I am a new member and I would need some urgent academic help. Tomorrow i have to submit an essay for my postgraduate study. as Slovenian I am not sure if everything is in order in the essay. I attached the essay in this message. If anybody would consider looking into my essay I...