When it comes to preposition, I always feel uncomfortable. By reading sentences with ' in or on or of ', I intuitively guess the meaning of sentence. (although, sometimes there are phrasal verbs which have totally different

I'm quite fond of the Cambridge English In Use series. I've really learnt a lot from them. But if it's the best... who knows. Regards Dokterjokkebrok

Hi, evryone. I am trying to improve my english and I need some help. I have a few questions: 1. What is synonym for "account for X per cent"? How to say in other words this sentence: It accounts for 55 per cent. 2. This sentence is

I'm trying to study English phrasal verbs. I would like to find some web page with a good explanation of the most important phrasal verbs I have a dictionary, but it's very hard to study phrasal verbs with it, I need some help Thanks

I found this amazingly perplexing.. I hope I've done nothing to disuade you from being adamant. Second thought, "adamant" may not a a good chcoice of word on my part as it presents a negative cannotation. If it's

Liat. If you insist the sentence is correct, can you please educate me which one of the following definitions meets the grammatical requirement of the sentence in question? For the benefit of a slight doubt, I will invite other's opinions.

Is that correct, or does 'up' become its own Prepositional Phrase within the Verb phrase? It may depend on the details of the system of analysis you are following. I'm inclined to go with Radford and have 'up' become a PP in

It seems you model the abilities and needs of all ESL students on yourself. That's what you are doing too, except it's never clear what the foudation of your reasoning is, and often also what the actual reasoning is. It seems successful

Those fors of phrasal verbs I presented as examples are defined as 'to get' in this dictionary: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=30332&dict=CALD or as 'used to indicate the object of a desire, intention, or

Of course, your sentence is grammatically correct. Who tells you that the people in English speaking countries are not using the phrasal verb "to pick up" in their speech? However, my native language is not the English language