Raja, let me make a number of essential clarifications: 1. ' Hence , that the 'do'-construction in "Who went to the park?" is not possible or at least less preferable (which of the two is it in your opinion?) in "Who

This sounds like a simple question. But the answers are much more involved. Coming from an Asian background, learning to speak and use the language remotely sounding like a native took many years of relentless practicing and studying. I think

What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

Of course both those books have CD's. Without CD's those books would be worthless... Both books are especially about intonation, linking words, reduced sounds and something about pronunciation you can hardly find in books on American

Yes, you can do that: "Damn, he's astute!" or "Damn, is he astute!" (I'd probably use a comma). The emphatic use should not be confused with the use of "damn" to express annoyance: "Damn! He's

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,

Does this have something to do with the pronunciation of English? I've never heard of the concept. It sounds to me more like something to do with one of the Asian languages that are tonal.

Perhaps to a certain extent, but accent is much more a pointer to geographic region. Very well educated (upper class) people will usually speak standard (or 'Oxford' English), but some people are proud of their origins and will keep the

You use a rising intonation to emphasise a word What are you wearing that for? No! This one What colour car do you have? (as distinct from your bicycle) What colour car do you have? (as distinct from your sister's car)

In everyday English it's fine (in my opinion). In more formal English, I guess you should say "... about their being right or wrong." You could alternatively say "When you make decisions, you don't worry