Hi Danijela, I am so sorry! I think there has been some miscommunication. Please don't go away! I am just like you coming to this forum to get my doubts clarified. I am not the teacher. English is not my mother tongue. 'Lost in

I am so glad to see this question and the responses. I have been living in France for the last 13 years and teaching English as a Second Language. This "go missing" usage was one of my favorite examples of the differences between British

Hi, Some years ago, my British teacher marked as wrong my closing sentence in a letter (FCE level) to a friend. I had witten " Please write me soon ." I was then taught that British and American English differ on this (... write you

"Ovum" What do people in your country say about Americans behind our backs, and how have the actual Americans you've interacted with (including the ones here on MWSm) fit or disproved the stereotype? The few Americans I've met

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If you are going to use the adjective "fellow" then it is only when you are in the same category as them. The President of the United States say "My fellow Americans." Someone from France or China cannot say that. A student

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Hi there, I have some advice, I don't know how much sense it'll make, but... I pay much attention to how people write on forums, but my sentence structure has stayed on a basic level. That's not true, you write well! I cannot

Hi JKB, Not quite. "On an unrelated note" means "I'm going to mention something else, but it doesn't have relevance to what we're talking about." I think Johnny is too young for the movie Hot

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