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I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

Thanks CJ " Serious grammatical error " is my paraphrase. But when and if ESL students start to expressly state "this IS an exceptional usage", I suppose that means "these is a set rule on this and no one can break that in any shape or form". " the...

First,. let me say that I agree usage-wise Nona and you. I also think that the mother-example is a good one - but it's not a perfect one. It's a good one, because it demonstrates the difference between the time of action and the time of speaking. Noun references are routinely rooted...

Hi what's the difference between "what firmware is your psp" and "what is your psp firmware." "what tense is this" and "what is this tense" I wonder why sometime the noun can be right after the wh-question but sometime after the "to be" Thanks

Dear Sir Thank you very much for your explanation about the diffrence between noun clauses and relative clauses. Now, I would like to ask you one more question which is about the compariosons of adjectives. The sentenses are as below: 1. Which is the most useful thing to own: a computer or a...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours " The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

Yankee wrote: Jackson6612 wrote: Question 2: Both Philip and Yankee said: I am used to play ing cricket in my spare time. I was told that after to simple Present Tense form is used but playing is not simple Present Tense form of play . What would you say on this? Most of the...

1. Here is a sentence from the key "But I hope you know what you're doing" I'm wondering... Can we say "I'm hoping" or rather not? and is it totally incorrect or in other contexts it would be ok? Grammatically it's okay, but "I hope" sounds more natural to me at the moment. 2. Just tell me if...

Hi folks! I know that I have A LOT OF questions... but I hope someone can at least take a look at them... let's start. I've got some dobuts about the following : (all examples come from Michael Vince's 'Advanced Language Practice') 1. Here is a sentence from the key "But I hope you...

Judging from his original question, I can suspect what he might be asking is simply the difference between "We don't have (noun)." and "We have not (noun)." "uploaded" can be misguiding us to think that question is about the tense. Let's say we put "disks" after uploaded. My understanding...