Please be patient. We come here as volunteers. I'm not sure if you're writing about the play real life. If you're talking about the play, you should say something like "In William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar , the reader

Hi Oerwahfm Here are a few ideas to get you started. If you do not use any contractions, your speech will tend to sound awkward or overly formal. These are commonly used contractions, for example: 'm, 's, 're, 've, 'd, 'll,

^^ There are many sites which explain usenet abbreviations. We talk a different dialect of English here. I think Molly has a fair point here. After all our newcomer wants to learn English 'as she is spoke' ... enough already when you are a

Am Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:29:54 +00 schrieb Dave Fawthrop: ^^ Is this standard English? Can you please describe this construction to me (non-native speaker)? No, it's an error. He should have written "of accessing Usenet". He should

I checked a few American dictionaries, and found the long ... some people would feel the opposite about which sounds affected. An American dictionary which had only the "-ee" pronunciation for "lingerie" would, I predict,

"If you notice spelling errors I would appreciate you/your bringing ... sounds better. I don't understand why is "your" sometimes used? Fowler's /Modern English Usage/ second edition calls the "you" form a

"If you notice spelling errors I would appreciate you/your bringing it to my attention." To me "you" version sounds better. I don't understand why is "your" sometimes used? Fowler's /Modern English Usage/

Vigor wrote on 14 Dec 2004: "If you notice spelling errors I would appreciate you/your bringing it to my attention." To me "you" version sounds better. Not to me, though. I don't understand why is "your" sometimes

This worked pretty well until Paul Olum said "the tangent of 10 to the 100th", which, according to Feynman (and I've no reason to disagree), is impossible for anyone to do in the head. We were just talking about large numbers in the

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be }> accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary