Hi Alc I will begin with a few comments. Maybe someone else will add more. 2 This piece of meat isn't diced /cut as well as the other BOTH "Diced meat" would normally be a reference to many, very small pieces of meat. Therefore,

Hi. We would like you to try.. Grammar Geek said it as I meant it .. Fandorin. I still can't figure out why you said to me, 'We would like you to try'. I know this is where people ask and answer about English. I

But I think that only Fandorin knows the meaning of the sentence which Fandorin wrote to me, although others can interpret it.. Grammar Geek said it as I meant it. By the way, she gave you the perfect answer. But I can't understand a note of

Well, I didn't consider the stress on "pizza", but it's stressed, yes. I was only considering the first part, "Joe and Lenny", or whatever they were called. And I don't know why, but I'd stress

Hi everyone I 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

Avangi wrote: Edit. Nope, sorry, Amy's wasn't a complex sentence. "I think he's handsome, don't you?" It doesn't refer to anything - better as two sentences, like Philip says. Yes, "don't you" might be better as a separate little

Hi Jim, I noticed this, and remembered something I read on that book, "American Accent Training". I didn't pay much attention to that part, because I then found out that there were a lot of exceptions, so many that it made no sense to consider any

Anonymous wrote: Ok, I see you didn't get it. I will repeat it again. Accents and intonation aren't the same things. You can emphasize something without speaking a perfect accent, let's say American one. Just rise a pitch of your voice at the

CalifJim wrote: I've read this thread several times, and it's puzzling. How are you? gets the same normal downward falling intonation and stress at the end as any other content question. I don't sense a really emphatic stress on you ,

I've read this thread several times, and it's puzzling. How are you? gets the same normal downward falling intonation and stress at the end as any other content question. I don't sense a really emphatic stress on you , just the same as at