) An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun. -- OK ) The exam was adjourned since the the professor was ill. ) The government has adjudged that the country's economy is experiencing hard times so the tax rates will be

Ttate: Welcome to the forums. This is a very interesting subject! Languages do have a formal grammar, but also there are many times when the rules are broken by native speakers in actual practice. Sometimes "formal speech," although

Unfortunately, I don't think I have the material you want, but it depends on what kind of English you are interested in. If you are interested in British English rather than in American English, you can find a lot of free stuff on the BBC

Hi there, Here's a sentence from a book " The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics" In speech, three processes, at the very least, are taking (1) place simultaneously: first, sounds are actually being (2) uttered;

Hi, I live and work in London and I would really like to improve my spoken english. In particular pronunciation, ... I found is during the day. Do you know of any "good" C&P course in London for full-time workers ? You could try

Django asked about 'phoneme swatting': here is how it works: - Write up a set of phonemes on the board, either as phonetic symbols, or minimal pairs, or however your students recognise them. - Divide the class into two teams (two is best

Hello. I've heard (say, in some British songs) the following pronunciation: the vowel in "got" was pronounced in a sort ... was Blur, by the way. The sound was not even short, it lasted for some time (because it's a song).

As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary English verb that is

I've tried to hunt down the AUE web page for misles to see if this is already recorded, with no ... read today several times as "co-ax", short for "co-axial", until I got the real meaning and the sentence made sense. As a

If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to me that Richard means that your "ah" sounds like a vowel that, if he himself said it, he would prefer to