By Idioms, Sentence structures

Consider the following dialogue:Person #1: "You're crazy!"Person #2: "I'm not crazy. I merely claim to be Napoleon come back from the grave."After doing a Google search for "I merely claim to be", I was surprised to find that the phrase is not nearly as...

Hi everyone,I'm new here. I hope I can learn much from this forum. I'm currently reading the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (has anyone here read this?), and I find many phrases and idioms and sentence structures that I'm not familiar with. I hope it's okay if I post here...

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chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />> Your essay is clear in general. Yet you have to be careful about some points.>> First, try to paraphrase what you want to say if it's given by the topic. Don't use the exact wordings.>> It's good for you to have used different sentence structures in the...

(Mr M forgot to log in again!-- MM) It is a matter of natural sentence flow and stress for meaning. Let's write it like a prose sentence: I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. Spoken in conversation, sentences carry several levels of stress, not just stressed and...

It implies a process of doing something. e.g. You have to look up 100 new words you don't know. You spread this over a month, while you also learn things about grammar, sentence structure, idioms, proverbs, etc. You learn 100 new words as you learn English. You do it as you go.

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one. Children of poor social classes in Dickens' times would be...

This is a very open question. General English -informal -may contain idioms, colloquial, and slang phrases and sentences -not always spoken and written (e-mail) in complete sentences Business English -precise, often legalistic language is used that is difficult to understand -more complex...