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Something to chew on: THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language, and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult, educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals no...

My students use the following excellent grammar book: English Grammar in Use - by Raymond Murphy - Cambridge University Press. From the book for intermediate students - Unit 62, p.124 it states: When these expressions are followed by a verb, the verb ends in -ing : It's no use/It's no...

Let's spread out the issue a little bit: ____ O ____ Type 2. Basic forms . a. If we caught the 10 o'clock train, we would (could, might, etc.) get there by lunch-time. b. If I came into a fortune, I would give up smoking. c. If I knew how it worked, I could...

This is very interesting. Idiomatic expressions a more important than grammar sometimes. I totally agree with that. It occurs quite often that I read a lot of post here and think:" Hmmm, I would have written this one in another way. This is one of the reasons to be in this forum here. To learn as...