Could you please give me a hand with this? tell me if they are grammatical? 1 Imagine you could choose how long you sleep for . 10 hours or even 2 years. (sci fi movie) 2 You're entitled to unemployment benefits for as long s as

Hello! I have a doubt. In the students´book it says WANT/ASK/TELL SB to do STH. It also says: Note "I don´t want you to go". BUT: "I asked him NOT to leave" "I told him NOT to come". Then there is an exercise

Hi, I have a great doubt! In the Students course book it is explained the structure WANT/ASK/TELL someone to do something. It also explains that you say "I don´t want you to tell anyone". Then it says: Verbs ASK and TELL have a

hi,"the terms you use are "coined phrases" not frequently used by the average English speaker,or the speaker of average english, however there is a practical approach to the usage of English, i.e. it is more than likely that 98% of

Hi John, I teach English and would be glad to explain the sentences: first, neither sentence is grammatically correct. The first one shoud be: When Sue arrivED, we had dinner. That's the only way, (or the only one) that

Many thanks. I wish you the same. << As what you said, the term of "partial negation" is out of my grammar book. For example: All the movies are not worth seeing . It means only some of them are not worth seeing. But to a

Hi Yaggy, I'm no expert, but perhaps I can help. She is getting more beautiful every day . I get, you get, he/she/it gets is the simple present tense. I am getting, You are getting, He is getting is the present continuous - the

Hi, Listen to your cousin. You saw that. 'Saw' is Past Tense. You did not see that. To form the past tense with a negative, you use the past tense of 'do' as an auxiiary verb, ie ' did '. And you use

what What is the difference between either and neither ? either is positive; neither is negative, meaning not either . CJ

Hi. Would you say there is no difference between the modal verb "could" in the negative (as in "could not") and the verb form "was not able to" when mentioning an action in a specific moment in time or some extended