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Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Anonymous wrote: When I concentrate my attention on the problem, I am not accustomed ___ interrupted. a. To be b. To being c. Being d. For being *** I thought "to" can only use with v., such as to be, to hear.... Why? Thank you, Hi, There are many verbs that work with prepositions and...

Joeviee wrote:Thanks alot for all your suggestions. It is definitely no shortcut to learning English andI love devoting all of my time to memorizing all the exceptions that only English langauge has. Am I right? There is an extremely easy way to determine whether to is a preposition or not:...

How about, "Are you anxious for going home"? This too would be said to mean "eager to go home," wouldn't it, khoff? Does the distinction according to the preposition, and the to-infinitive, also apply to the noun form "anxiety" --- anxiety for, anxiety to do, and axiety about? "Are you anxious...

Hello hanuman I think you can take "here" in the "from here" as a noun, if you think it will be more convenient for your learning English. Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the...

I've read the thread, and what a wonderful discussion it is! Here are my humble thoughts on the distribution: Dangling (1) *After eating lunch, my bike was fixed. 'After eating lunch', an adverbial phrase, has the following internal structure: preposition + gerund + object. The main clause...

It's a shame that your school, like too many others in this country, decided that the study of grammar was dispensable. It gives you a significant handicap when studying foreign languages if you don't know the technicalities of your own language's grammar. (Not everyone would agree with that...