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Congratulations on your hard work. - A. Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

Here, for all, is fine example of the workings of TEFLese: There are, then, at least two kinds of language production as part of the learning process in the classroom. At times people produce language in order to communicate. At other times they produce language simply in order to practise...

With Do you like ...? you are normally asking about a habitual activity. A plural object is commonly used if the object is countable. You can usually add f rom time to time or a similar adverbial phrase without contradicting the meaning or changing the meaning significantly. With activities the...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these words kilometer centimeter Are those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ? After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...

Hello CalifJim ! I've been looking at some texts containing both succeeded at and succeeded in but I'm not really sure of what I am going to say. I've seen that they both are followed by a verb in gerund. "Succeeded in" is followed by a place --> Succeede in Middle East. "Succeeded at" is...

Hello chaps, My head is spinning on this one. Gerunds should of course be easy but I think I'm having a spazzy block on this one. Please check out the following examples: 1) Leaving taps on and using too much water is very bad for the environment. (Easy, 2 gerunds right?) 2) Everyone should be...

Yankee wrote: Thank you for pointing out my typo, Goodman. Doll made a valid point which I simply tried to follow up on. You have now commented on using the preposition 'about' after 'forget'. However, my comments were a response to a specific post and therefore limited to discussing the...

Swagatalakshmi wrote: OK - consulted couple of grammar books. "Participles" (verb+-ing or verb in past participle form) ALWAYS modify nouns. If you see a verb +-ing used as a stand-alone phrase (noun) which is not modifying anything, it must be a gerund. There is nothing called "adverbial...

1. bringing is a participle. It modifies the whole sentence which precedes. Or, if you will, it modifies the implied leaving (of the eagles) . The leaving of the eagles brought to 34 the number of ... It's adverbial in nature, so technically it should not be called a participle according to...