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quote user khoff Hi Jazzmaster yes your questions are entirely appropriate and welcome here I also have a more liberal feeling about pale than ill I would probably say That girl is very pale but if I read the pale girl it would not bother me On the other hand the ill man sounds very odd And...

Thanks KooyeenBy the way after googling it a liitle bit I came across a web page that describes different adverb clauses with time expressions If someone s still interested here is the link http esl about com library grammar blgr_adverbclauses_time htmSo the right answer to my question would be...

You are right Forbes we have had this discussion before Maybe we can introduce some new angles to it I repeat that I have never said English is easier than other languages I have said that its grammar and syntax are easy What have you locked the book I was being read to out of up for Five...

1 Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning I didn t quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions Would you please explain the difference again a The plays had been were performed THROUGHOUT the next ten years many times every year in that periodb He had acted had been acting acted...

Dear teachers Would you please help me with the following difficuties 1 Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning I didn t quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions Would you please explain the difference again a The plays had been were performed THROUGOUT DURING the next ten...

Hi I know that you use the simple past for an action happened in a definite time in the past and the present perfect for a time period that didn t end yet There s more to it than that You need to review the uses of the Present perfect in a good grammar book Once I heard Peter Griffin say this on...

Rith wrote Some English grammar books say that you can use during which instead of when in a relative adverb clause Is it always true Well I m not sure Certainly during which and when are both time related expressions However while when in a relative adverb clause modifies time noun such as the...

Some English grammar books say that you can use during which instead of when in a relative adverb clause Is it always true Well I m not sure Certainly during which and when are both time related expressions However while when in a relative adverb clause modifies time noun such as the period the...

Forbes wrote Cool Breeze your English is faultless I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head In English the complexity resides in the syntax Many say that English has no grammar because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions but of course if it had no grammar it would...

Hi InchoI agree with the previous posters completely I would just like to elaborate a little from a non native speaker s standpoint to a non native speaker We re both foreigners right Since there are hardly any inflections in English the word order is very rigid and certain phrases and...