Americans use less in the way of salutations than most other people. My idea would be, Regards, John Smith or, Sincerely, John Smith

Hi There's no need for confusion. It's very simple. Normally we say: I was you were he/she/it was we were you were they were But Beyonce sings ' if I were a boy...'. --> What she sings is also correct. If I were president,

Many linguists consider accent to be the indicative of someone's nativeness. I mean people who live in Scotland are certainly natives but they speak with a distinct accent which is hard to understand even by many native speakers. On the other

Hi Dena, My nickname is Kimemela. I use this beautiful American Indian name which means butterfly to protect my privicy. I have graduated from a university in Turkey recently. I want to have friends from different parts of the world to

A differs from (= has a different quality) B. Mr A differs with (= has a different opinion) Mr B. " with regards to " and with regard to "-- The first is incorrect; these are the only standard expressions: 'as regards', ' in regard to', and

Hi Danijela, I am so sorry! I think there has been some miscommunication. Please don't go away! I am just like you coming to this forum to get my doubts clarified. I am not the teacher. English is not my mother tongue. 'Lost in

My first Korean film. From an auctorial standpoint, there's not much here. I don't speak Korean, but I don't think a bad subtitling job can explain it all; this entire movie is boring characters walking around from place to place and

to treat or regard erroneously as identical; mix or associate by mistake: "truth confounded with error." Can anybody elaborate this defition as if to explaining to an American kindargarden? Thank you

In Bryan A. Garner's "Dictionary of Modern American Usage", the set phrase "suffice it to say" is explained to be the subjunctive form of the indicative "it suffices to say". The article on the subjunctive mood in

HSS, 'had it handled' is an example of a verb phrase with a causative use of have in the past. Since the meaning is causative, it is regarded as dynamic by most grammarians, or, in other words, using your term, have in this particular