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Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...

Hi Cute572 1. Sitting at my writing desk and working on my assignment, I become captivated by the soft evening rays, pouring in through the side window and gently covering my sheet in their yellow and orange shades. "Become" is fine (if you've decided that you want to write the...

It's correct. What is used in questions at the beginning of a clause. Are must be before the subject (you) in a question. The continuous present tense is often used to denote future action. No preposition is used before this when this refers to time.CB

Which sentence is correct? 1. Where did I left off on Wednesday? (Past tense) 2. Where did I leave off Wednesday? (Present tense) 3...that is what it says or said (Does said contain an s, saids ) 4. This I is how I would have come or came in. Can the preposition in be at the end of a...

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...

What an interesting topic... I have to agree with your opinion, language reflects very much the thinkings or esp. outer circumstances of a people and its culture; you can see that e.g. by how many words exist in one language for the same or at least equal thing: Why else does e.g. English...