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Hi CB, I wouldn't know where to start! English grammar is pretty different from Italian grammar. However, there are a lot of similar words (one example: government - governo), and several similar structures and idioms. The problem is that there are also several false friends, and lots of...

Kooyeen wrote: Hi, this is the problem: in negative sentences we usually use any + plural noun. I don't have any sisters (not "any sister", at least in common contexts). I was pretty confident, but look: I didn't find that idiom in any dictionary . Is it dictionary or dictionaries? If it's...

Hi, this is the problem: in negative sentences we usually use any + plural noun. I don't have any sisters (not "any sister", at least in common contexts). I was pretty confident, but look: I didn't find that idiom in any dictionary . Is it dictionary or dictionaries? If it's dictionary, then it's...

Hey, you forgot about all the other things "do" could stand for, like: do. abbreviation for ditto. .do abbreviation: Dominican Republic (in Internet addresses). n. Music The first tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio. n. Slang pl. dos A hairdo. v. did, (dd)...

Thanks, Eagle, Paco, and MisterM for all your painstaking posts! Much to chew on. 1. It's odd that both your and K's dictionaries give this structure, which I seldom if ever hear. Maybe it's more common elsewhere. Sorry, all: I should have been clearer. I meant the ‘Child as he was…’...