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"I am a new English student. For me is very hard for now because the English is very different from Portuguese. I am studding hard everyday because I need to speak English fluent for to get a better Job. Also to talk with people from different countries. The most hard is the preposition, I...

Cool Breeze wrote: Grammarian-bot wrote:Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to. Any...

Grammarian-bot wrote:Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to. Any help/suggestions.Hi GBThe to in...

Englishuser wrote:I couldn't agree more: English idioms and spellings tend to be difficult even for many a native speaker! I would also like to add that the size of the English lexion makes learning English relatively difficult. Just out of curiosity: What exactly do you try to sound like on...

Anonymous wrote: Thinking smiley this is my big problem how to speak english plz help me In order to understand something said in English, first you should know the meaning of the words spoken, and of course the structure of the sentence. But even then you won't understand much of...

Hi, I'm a Chinese. In Chinese, a noun has not a singular or plural form of it. I often forget the plural form of a noun. In addition prepositions often puzzle me too. Although english grammar is not very difficult, I don't use it well enough yet. Maybe it is my misconception that native...

You mustn’t kiss each other while the Teacher is teaching. OK; it's forbidden You aren’t allowed to talk when the Teacher teaches. OK; you don't have the permission Instead of speaking Vietnamese, you must always/ often speak English. ... you must speak English: obligation You mustn’t eat...

Hello again, Mask. I musunderstood your question, but I see what you mean now. Just like many other English words, "than" belongs to more than one class. It is a preposition in sentences like "She is taller than me", and it is a conjunction in sentences like "She is taller than I (am)." In other...