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If you have had the grammar checked but MrM has indicated changes he would advise perhaps you would be better to think carefully about the sentences To me they read like a translation and can be obscure They need to be thought about in order to understand them As to blogs since they are personal...

quote user CalifJim The student looked up fly and found mosca in the dictionary Not realizing it was the insect fly he then constructed a sentence in Spanish intending to say that on his next vacation he was going to fly to Madrid If you know Spanish it may be funnier because he actually...

Hi everyone Happy New Year But I m trying to be happy I m pulled into a debate over the very English standard in a Chinese translation forum A sensible lad who crammed in China s New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages including those in nytimes com economist com native speakers...

Grammar Geek wrote I ve never heard one swallow does not make a summer before Is that a BrE expression or a direct translation of an idiom in your language Thanks GG The proverb is definitely English but I m sure whether it s AE or BE

Yankee wrote Since you claim to be learning American English I would suggest that it is more your Italian ness than the fact that you are not female that would cause you not to say I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of a forest or desert Actually we have an expression Devo andare al...

Snn wrote Thank you Grammar Geek It escaped my eye Oh you are from Turkey too But I think you ve made a direct translation in this sentence It escaped my eye No such expression exist in English You should have said I missed that part or I didn t pay attention to that or sth like that I think

Well now I have to make a translation here so there is no either way I have to be more precise Grammar Geek wrote they just have to accept that the passing of time is a factor in our lives that we can t do anything about time is something we just have to accept as is Just for your information the...

Just a couple of points There is often no clear cut division between what is grammatical and what is ungrammatical There are thousands of groupings of words about which grammar experts cannot agree The layman and the learner are often much more insistent upon the acceptability or unacceptability...

Englishuser wrote Hi Calif Jim You asked Which do you find ungrammatical Or what does your book say if that s the source of your question Number 2 is ungrammatical according to grammar books Number 1 and number 3 are both all right and represent good idiomatic English So why did I ask this...

As Grammar Geek says these are adverbs This is from Merriam Webster s Concise Dictionary of English Usage flat adverb A flat adverb is an adverb that has the same form as its related adjective fast in drive fast slow in go slow sure in you sure fooled me bright in the moon is shining bright flat...