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Re: What does "a means to an end" mean?

a means to an endsomething that you are not interested in but that you do because it will help you to achieve something else. Mike doesn't have any professional ambitions. For him, work is just a means to an end. (not used with the) See also: end, meanIdiI()Cambridge International Dictionary...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Anonymous 110 days ago Idioms Universities
Re: multilingual Europeans

Hi KotoI realise you may never read this but I'll post it just the same. Not all European languages are related. My native language, Finnish, isn't even an Indo-European language. It is related to Estonian and Hungarian but not to such Germanic languages as English, German, Danish,...

Foo and community anything-you-like-ness by Cool Breeze 115 days ago Spelling Grammar Universities Dates Vocabulary Idioms
Re: Take liberties (with somebody) - Old-fashioned?

Thanks Khoff. MH, you are right. I googled and found the phrase’s still in use. Probably what is "old-fashioned" is the sexual-abuse implication of the idiom as it stands. Now people tend to add some explicit adjectives like "sexual, indecent, inappropriate..." to the idiom to make...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by An Asian 248 days ago Idioms Universities
Re: I've been here from 7 o'clock.

Clive wrote: Hi Doll, Why are you so sure these other examples are wrong? Yes, I was really so sure that they are strictly not grammatical but tonight I asked them to one of the grammar instructors in my university and learned the correct choices. From the time gives the sense of...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Doll 257 days ago Grammar Universities Idioms
Re: can someone check for me ... ? ( my grammar mistakes) ^_^

Lulu-uae wrote:Many people like to live in a big city for many advantages reasons .Firstly, they can find job expensive cost of living. [ ..I know I have many mistakes,but you can help me.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Feebs11 278 days ago Grammar Verbs Plurals Universities Idioms
Re: 'A FEW' and 'FEW'?

Allwynglad wrote:A few of my friends were there in the theatre.Few of my friends were there in the theatre.Do these sentences mean the same?a fewadjectivemore than one but indefinitely small in number; "a few roses"; "a couple of roses" WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yoong Liat 1 yr 40 days ago Numbers Universities 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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How to tell you help students to study in CV

Hello,I'm trying to write my first English curriculum vitae and I have a problem.In my "experiences" I would like to tell that I'm a university student who helps younger students (high school) in the afternoon, teaching them what they don't understand at school and helping them with homework.In...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by JosieITA 1 yr 70 days ago Idioms Expressions Universities Curriculum vitae
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Hello! I'd like to ask for some advice. I have to write a work on English idioms at my university course and my task is to find out new idioms which are not fixed in dictionaries, it should be a certain field, I decided to pick up bussiness idioms as to my mind it's the most changing fild, may...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Anonymous 1 yr 74 days ago Idioms Universities
Re: Canadians and their English

General Canadian English is extremely similar to General American English. However, there are a number of differences between the two dialects. Firstly, GCE (General Canadian English) exhibits a linguistic phenomenon called Canadian Raising. Basically, the diphthong “ai”--as in "by" or "lie"--is...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Anonymous 1 yr 79 days ago Universities Vowels Difference between Dialects Idioms Articles Numbers Diphthongs American English Definite articles Consonants

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