how to be fluent while speaking and stop searching for words in the middle of the conversation Just keep talking! After having difficulty with a particular conversation, reconstruct it on paper. Write out all the things you tried to say, the

1.What does 'He's wound up tighter than a drum' mean? It's a mixed metaphor/simile for tension, but it used to be quite popular. The coil springs which powered old fashioned toys were wound up with a key. We used to wind our

Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hello, Raja, It goes without saying that there is no blame in being a non-native speaker and a layperson in linguistic science, so

Hi, Sorry, but this is no better than before. No educated English speaker would write a letter like this with just one paragraph. And no university would bother to read it. They'd just throw it in the garbage. Do you care about

Hi, I'd change these: 5. The sun was eclipsed by the moon. ACTIVE PASSIVE 9. This bone has been buried by the dog . PASSIVE 10. It takes a long time to think of these examples . PASSIVE ACTIVE 13. There was a cup of coffee on the table but now

Hi Friends, Glad being here. Here is my first post. Passage A Passage B Passage C If in each of the passages, we have a conclusion. Now in passage D, we want to mention one of them like this: ... the proceding/above/previous conclusion tells us

the past participle of the verb "go", is it "been"? No. It's gone . "go" in this case has irregular form in the past participle which is "been" That seems logical, but normally we analyze the situation

Hi, Situation: We (A and B) are waiting for a friend (C). Is the underlined I see no underlining expression okay in the above situation? A: We've been waiting for C for a long time. OK B: I don't know what has happened to C. keeps

Situation: We (A and B) are waiting for a friend (C). Is the underlined expression okay in the above situation? A: We've been waiting for C for a long time. B: I don't know what happened to C. A: I can't wait any longer. I have to go

Hi, In the context of an election, a 'sweep' means winning all or almost all of the seats. 'Keep up a sweep' means continue winning in this way. 'A wave' refers, generally speaking, to a widespread and