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I don't know what I'd call it. Not an essay, there's no arguement techinically, just an opinion. I wrote it as a practice in writing racticing rather than voicing an opinion, although every bit of it is genuin. I had trouble deciding on the name for the subject matter, but this name,...

Yes, the definite article can be used with nouns of both types, "Pour the water onto the tea" – "water" and "tea" are pure uncountable nouns. I don't think so. Maybe we have to struggle a bit to learn to pronounce some sounds, but once grasped, it is not...

I have been told that the accent of Russian is such that Russians have to struggle a lot in order to speak good English. Is it true?

HI I have a question please How do you pronouns this word in the American accent WATER it seem's like this When I hear it WARER Is that correct

The noun, in the first sentence, has the accent on the first syllable. PRAW-gress. (American pronunciation) The verb, in the second sentence, has the accent on the second syllable. pruh-GRESS. (Also American) Did you mean pronunciation, or did you mean something else?

Hi, #1. Since accent is a countable noun, we need 'a' for both heavy accent and heavier accent . #2. I prefer 'hesitancy in responding' . Besides the above comments, both sentences have a run-on problem. There are more than one way to reword them; and here is my suggestion: ...

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 rules. CalifJim wrote: a palm - plant ed COURT...

Hi, I remeber I once read (in Amercan Accent Training) that when you say what your name is, like "My name is Earl" , you should stress "my", not "name". I'd never heard that... and I was surprised, since here in Italy every teacher makes you say "My name ease Earl ", stress on name and Earl ,...

Dear all, All passages below are from “ Crazy English ” – by Richard Lederer, POCKET BOOKS . (I tried to find an Internet link, but failed. So please pardon me for the length of the text, which I believe would be very informative). “HETERONYMS – words with same spelling as other...