By Intonations, Adverbs

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Kooyeen wrote: Goodman wrote: “A roof over your head in Calif does not cost as much as New York, it costs more” is a correct structure in your opinion, is that correct? Hi, yes. MM confused me a little when he mentioned a less usual interpretation, which is the interpretation of my example...

Goodman wrote:“A roof over your head in Calif does not cost as much as New York, it costs more” is a correct structure in your opinion, is that correct?Hi,yes. MM confused me a little when he mentioned a less usual interpretation, which is the interpretation of my example and your example above...

Heh, complex sentences...I could never have imagined <--- at that time. In the past. Now I can, because I saw that feast.I could never imagine <--- I can't imagine that... <-- This doesn't make much sense, but it depends what you really want to say.That said, the part that gives me...

CalifJim wrote:I suspect that with intonation you could make just about any position of just about any adverb sound correct, but I don't think that's precisely what you're looking for.Yes! I suspected that too. I mean, when we write here, we have no idea how the others are going to read our...

To put it another way, I'd like to say and write sentences like these: Such perverse desires! Often you need to consider too many variables to be able to solve a problem in a reasonable time. OKOften, you need to consider too many variables to be able to solve a problem in a reasonable...

Hi Bsss10, both are perfectly fine, but loot at the comments in blue: I have only found two books out of six that I need. This is the most natural version, what most people would say more often. I have found only two books out of six that I need. This puts more emphasis on "two...

I wouldn't write it with a colon; it's all one sentence. I'm not even convinced that a comma is needed.The most usual position for an adverb of time is at the end, but at the beginning is fine.Today we're going to study trigonometry (answers the question: what are we going to do today?).We're...

I had not idea 'hopefully' would be a problem using...I've found interesting notes about its use in my dictionary... hopefully • In sense 2, hopefully is called a 'sentence adverb', because it qualifies the whole sentence and not just one word or phrase in it o Hopefully, it was all over now and...

I would add 'emphasis' to the list of reasons for moving an adverb of frequency; which you might denote thus: 1. 'Churches today grow – usually – by biological growth...' The intonation in the case of 'emphasis' differs from the intonation in the case of 'afterthought'. Some writers will also...