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Re: Could you please, help me with my questions?

Grammar Geek — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:20:12 GMT

Hello Gabriel,

1) Vacation is a great time for (or to) people have some rest from their daily routine; You're right: for.

2) If I win a good amount of money, I'll buy a lot of cheap electronic devices or cheap electronics. (?); Electronic is an adjective, so with a noun it's okay.

3) The old lady called me for (or to ) an interview. (?); You're right: for.

4) Music relax (or relaxes) the mind and shake (or shakes) the body. (?) Music should take the third-person singular. relaxes and shakes.

5) Is there any mistake in the following ?

- Music helps me to relax in a difficult moment of my life.; Not wrong, but if you use simple present, then there is more than one moment, so I would say "in difficult moments in my life."

6) Should we say I hate hard (or heavy music)? hard rock or heavy metal music

Re: I want to find some friend to talk and improve my english

Quangtrungvtv — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:09:23 GMT

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard.

This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I donât understand any sentence .

I am studying lines-lines Books, intermediate level, fellow I want to write some sentence about this book.

UNIT 1 : MODERN LIFE .

Grammar in use :

1In this unit show past ten, simple present tense .

2. this part talk about a story of effect modern life . This is simple story but it practice use tense of English.

UNIT 2 .FORTUNE

Grammar :

Talking about the past :

Grammar in use :

look at the photographs and headline of the newspaper article .

Question one : where does story take place ?

Answer : story talk about fortune of life . It is talking about Chris Bod , a programmer . After sell his house , with 145,000 $ he had taken plan to Las Vegas . Chris sitting all day in Casino and finally he lost all his money . He comeback London and live in a small flat . sine , He âve given up gambling.

Rules : the articale contain four tenses for talking about the past .

underlines positive and negative examples of each these tense

. The simple past

The past continuous

The past perfect

The present perfect.

How do we form each tense find example regular and irregular verbs.

Re: Interview Questions & tenses

Mister Micawber — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:59:42 GMT

As it stands-- I presume that the job exists-- I would use simple present:

The reponsibilities involved in this position are:
- Emptying the dustbins
- Mopping the floors
- Dusting the prie-dieux

Re: Exercise on future 2

MrPedantic — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:22:26 GMT

Hello again Hela

Would you please explain to me your use of the future progressive in the 3 cases here?

Well...this falls firmly within the category of 'post facto rationalization', but:

It seems to me that the future progressive is used for events whose precise time we do not know, or do not care to express, e.g.

1. 'Thank you very much for coming to the interview, Ms Hela. We'll be contacting all the candidates next week...' [Deliberately vague.]

2. 'Uncle Frank will be arriving some time next week, so we'd better tidy up the spare room.' [Uncle Frank still hasn't told us when he's arriving.]

3. 'Will you be wanting anything else?' [Someone in a 'service industry' to a customer: vagueness = deference.]

It also seems to be used for events where we do know the precise time, but which have a continuous connection with the present:

4. 'We'll be opening our new office in Roissy-en-Brie next year.' [Preparations are already being made.]

5. 'Fine, I'll see you in Starbucks in 10 minutes. I'll be sitting upstairs as usual.' [They're both on their way.]

Compare:

1a. 'Thank you very much for coming to the interview, Ms Hela. We'll contact you next week.' [Startlingly direct â you've got the job.]

2a. 'Uncle Frank will arrive some time next week, so we'd better tidy up the spare room.' [A slight air of firmness: there is no doubt that the spare room is about to be tidied.]

3a. 'Do you want anything else?' [Someone in a 'service industry' to a customer: directness = rudeness.]

4a. 'We will open our new office in Roissy-en-Brie next year.' [And that's final. No argument.]

5a. 'Till Friday, then, my friend...We shall meet at our little cafÃ©, in the Place de la VendÃ´me, just as we used to do...And I shall sit in the window, in my usual place...' [Elderly, rather over-powdered lady, on the phone to her old admirer. She often says 'whom', has a Pekingese, and is probably played by Audrey Hepburn.]

That said, sometimes (as in some of these examples) a simple present or present progressive works too. So I'd be interested in any second opinions.

See you,
MrP