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Bill Gates and types of face

Newspapers say Bill Gates has a boyish face.We also know of cherubic face (same as boyish face?), long face (an idiom or a shape?), short face, round face, flattened face.Can a man have a womanly face and a woman a manly face?How many face shapes (or facial shapes?) does the English world have? I...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Abil 24 days ago Literature Idioms phrase
Re: expect to be waited on hand and foot

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 149 days ago Literature Idioms

Hi, I had my final exam from the writing course as a home take-in, but the type of the essay sounded a little bit weird to me. Here is what my lecturer gave as information: Writing FINALWrite an evaluation essay on the following topicThe Self-Evaluation essay is a reflective essay assessing and...

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Re: Learning vocabulary in context

I'd strongly suggest buying these books: Oxford Collocations The BBI Dictionary for English Word Combinations Also, consider this site: http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms (both word and idiom searches) as they provide many examples For literary context, I'd suggest searches...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Marius Hancu 1 yr 181 days ago Idioms Vocabulary Literature Quotation marks
Re: Who's learning Indian English?

Indian English also has its own literature (e.g. V.S. Naipaul) and stylistic features (e.g. elaborate phrasing, use of idioms that would seem Wodehousian or old-fashioned to BrE speakers). MrP

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by MrPedantic 1 yr 188 days ago Idioms Literature
Re: Native-speaker intuition.

Englishuser wrote: Hi Cool Breeze, You wrote: Yes, I agree, but a native speaker's command of his language is usually superior to that of those who have not lived in total immersion. It is practically impossible to master a language if you are not in constant contact with those who speak it ...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Nef 1 yr 277 days ago Grammar Idioms Vocabulary Expressions Quotation marks Literature
Re: Native-speaker intuition.

Englishuser wrote: A non-native speaker who has immersed himself or herself with highbrow literature written in a foreign language could very well have a more vivid vocabulary and a better knowledge of the grammar of the language than the average native speaker. At least as far as the 'standard...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Cool Breeze 1 yr 277 days ago Nouns Tenses Grammar Accents Idioms Spelling Inflections Vocabulary Present tenses Literature English grammar American accents
Re: Eat my hat

CalifJim wrote:Google:"eat my hat" origin idiomActually Google wouldn't give good answers. This was used in literature first by Charles Dickens in "Pickw.ick Papers" (1837) : "If I knew as little of life as that, I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole". The OED suggests the original form...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by paco2004 2 yr 248 days ago Literature Idioms
Re: What's the logic behind this?

Thanks, Eagle, Paco, and MisterM for all your painstaking posts! Much to chew on. 1. It's odd that both your and K's dictionaries give this structure, which I seldom if ever hear. Maybe it's more common elsewhere. Sorry, all: I should have been clearer. I meant the ‘Child as he was…’...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by MrPedantic 3 yr 197 days ago Articles Constructions Clauses Nouns Negatives Literature Indefinite articles Definite articles Idioms

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