By Pronunciation, Clauses

Whenever there's a did (or didn't) in the same clause, drop the d of used. The pronunciation remains the same, since the d in the idiom used to is silent anyway. Did he use to be rich?I didn't use to think anyone could do that until I saw it for myself.We didn't realize that...

Not afraid of taking risks? I am afraid! I'm afraid to make mistakes and then keep on making them. It's difficult to get rid of certain mistakes you've been making for a long time. I knew it had to be "stop learning", but it slipped out, ooops. Anyway, thanks for pointing it out, I think that...

purest forms of English pronunciation: Purest forms? Wrong, I'd say, very often wrong. Now, Kooyeen, before you get yourself worked up into a dither, read it again. Note that there is no comma before where. It's a restrictive clause. Does that help? CJ

This is a particularly rough one! can has just an n (of course), but it's a full n. can't has an n that is terminated abruptly by an unreleased t (and it may even include a glottal stop for some speakers) which gives the impression of the beginning of a t (but not the end). Even the a seems...

Mister Micawber wrote:Song lyrics are an unending violation of English, but this is not one-- the phrase, if you have transcribed it accurately, represents the pronunciation of what you see, which is the noun-clause object of tell in the sentence: When you visit me, tell me what you see. so it...

Song lyrics are an unending violation of English, but this is not one-- the phrase, if you have transcribed it accurately, represents the pronunciation of what you see, which is the noun-clause object of tell in the sentence: When you visit me, tell me what you see.

Modal verb: I have to study Grammar all the time. Present perfect: I have been in Dalat for twenty years. She has been.......... Present perfect continuous: I have been eating She has been eating. Causative: I have my car serviced If -clause; If I have time, I'll go with you ...

Taka, This may prove to be another one of those long threads for which your posts are celebrated. Let me be the first to stick my foot in my mouth. 'That didn't have to mean that' would be a second-rate possibility, with the obvious problem of the same word referring to two different...

Thank you JTT, for your replya and your special advice on the English system we have. I am not a native speaker so I have been trying quite hard just to learn how English speaker think when they try to communicate with a Laguage full with rules. Sometimes I just don't get it that in such a short...