By Phrasal verbs, Universities

Hi K.,I spent a whole year in the UK, doing a postgraduate course. To make things worse, I chose to go to Wales because Cardiff Uni is at the cutting edge in my field. Have you ever heard somebody speaking with a Welsh accent? For the first two months there, I only wanted to cry... In spite of my...

My name's David and I'm an American living in Brazil. I'm studying at a university here (UNIP - Paulista University), majoring in Portuguese and also a foreign language (which in my case is English). I'm developing a project on phrasal verbs - specifically focusing on a method to help the...

AmE Several verbs (suggest, recommend, ask, etc) require the subjunctive after them: I suggested she go to the library. BrE The subjunctive is avoided in such constructions, and the should + infinitive is used: I suggested she should go to the library. or ordinary present and past...

GG, I agree with your analysis. The question is whether the Cambridge example was implicitly a claim that I suggested she went to the library had the same meaning as I suggested she go to the library, in which case it must be a British thing. CJ

The D In Paris wrote:I found the following phrase in "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press: "... I suggested she went to the library .. " I've read that "I suggested she went to the library", "I suggested she should go to the library" amd "I suggested she go to the...

Well, at first glance, you say "Oh my gosh, no! It should be I suggestd she GO to the library." But that would only be true if you had been making that suggestion to "her." If, on the other hand, "she" was missing, and people were talking about where she might be, I can see this discription of...

I found the following phrase in "English Phrasal Verbs in Use" by Cambridge University Press: "... I suggested she went to the library .. " Doesn't sound right to me ! What do you think ?

Hello Rotter "On campus" is a fixed expression, as Pinenut says. There are other similar expressions, e.g. "on site". 1. I have a room on campus. — in British English, this means "I have a room in one of the university buildings". (You would usually take such a room for a year.) 2. Do you...

Hi, I am new on this forum and I came here with the desire to ameliorate my knowledge of English, so I AM THANKFUL FOR THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THIS FORUM. I almost never actively practised English and need some help from time to time. The colleague who used to help me has left the University and...

Malta has two official languages, Maltese and English. Maltese is a mixture of Italian and Arabic - not the easiest language to learn and is extremely consonantal. Kids in Malta learn English and Maltese, Italian through television and school and have to choose either French or German in...