By Learn English, Clauses

When we make mistakes, we have to reflect on what we did wrong so that we can avoid making the same mistake again. We need to learn to be financially responsible so that we don’t get caught up in the credit debt trap. I want to learn English so that I can find a better job. Whenever...

Cool Breeze wrote: Liveinjapan wrote: I don't have very much in the way of free time.I don't have very much of free time. The structures of the above sentences are the same, so the object of each sentece is 'much', right? The structures are the same up to the word much. After that, the...

Liveinjapan wrote:I don't have very much in the way of free time.I don't have very much of free time. The structures of the above sentences are the same, so the object of each sentece is 'much', right?The structures are the same up to the word much. After that, the second sentence jars in my...

Hi GencebaySentence No. 1 has a realtive clause and if it were shortened - or as I prefer to say, if a clause equivalent were used - it would read:They spend a lot of time in their garden running right down to a river.That would be grammatically correct but it would mean that these people (=...

Believer wrote: Hi, I sometimes dithers between the choices to use a colon or a hyphen when I am giving an explanation of the main clause in whole or in part like this one: In a race to learn English faster, a person needs to possess these two personal qualities among others to do better:...

Hi, I sometimes dithers between the choices to use a colon or a hyphen when I am giving an explanation of the main clause in whole or in part like this one: In a race to learn English faster, a person needs to possess these two personal qualities among others to do better: patience and...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game. Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the 'changes'. This was meant to be just a game, not for those wo take everything seriously, and of course in this game...

Dear GG,Thank you so much for your help. (That anon was me, sorry for my posting anonymously.) Grammar Geek wrote:Do you want an edited version, or is this enough to let you know that you are making good progress?Actually, I'd love to have your help a bit further, if you don't mind. Although...

Hello FranmonajI think the English verb "suggest" is a bit tough to learn to us learners. In my mother tongue the verb equivalent to "suggest" and that to "advise" are used almost the same way. But in English "suggest" seems much weaker in 'to-person transitivity' than "advise". "Suggest" can't...

hi all, as i learn English as my second language , i'm just confused about the use of which and in which;; i know when to use which but sometimes i found some clauses use in which,,, i'm confused these two.. is there any significant difference in terms of...