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My high school Chinese teacher asked me to help her translate these two abstracts from Chinese into English. I have finished, but I need to correct them into better English. Please help me. I have to give my teacher the translation. She helped me

I am not quite close to 'homeless'. I am living at my aunt's home because my granny invited 3 of her siplings to stay... aiya, according to my parents this is going to last 2 weeks or more. I am currently using my uncle's PC just to get here and

Hi, How do you tell if an object does have gender? Well, as you probably know, some languages have gender for objects. English doesn't. Still, sometimes we speak of an object as having gender. Sometimes it's affection or tradition. A ship

Historic Lughnasadh Lughnasadh is a harvest celebration named for Lugh (Irish), Llew (Welsh), Lug (Britonic),or Lugus, the Celtic sun god. Lugh was one of the most popular of the Celtic gods. He gave his name to many towns around Europe

"But even within a particular regional dialect there is variety. What we describe here is Standard English. Which dialect of English is considered Standard English is really more the result of historical sociopolitical factors than linguistic

Do you mean the 'periphrastic present' or 'periphrastic with gerund'? If so, it exists in Spanish and Italian, but not French. "Je suis en train de..."? It exists in Swedish, and I would think Norwegian and Danish, too.

You've neatly turned this around, Jim. The proof is overwhelming that are both grammatical and in common use. Ergo, correct English. Now you head off on this tangent instead of locating the proof offerred by PGs to defend the prescription. Not

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I'm an Asian. I've heard people say that European languages are much like members of a single family, and people there learn other languages without much difficulty. Do the languages come so close to one another? Yes, so far as (1) they