Could you please help me to complete a chat of British teenage friends with the phases that best fit it. For each gap choose either A or B. A: (1)__ B: Yeah, great! I’ve decided to (2)________________ to a new iPod. A: (3)

Hi Clive So it's not possible to say why the writer mentions this whole population here? It's a longer passage. But I don't think it will make it clearer: After 6,000 years of conquest and colonisation, the

Both words are used in all varieties of English, whether British or American. They are not archaisms. They are both used in modern English. I don't think there is much more that I can explain. You can use either word. The hotel is located

The "l" of "bell" when it ends a word is kind of a "half l" when compared to the initial "l" in "love" which allows the "l" voicing to be completed by going to a vowel. Yet the

Hello, this is my first post here but I've been visiting the site for at least several months since I have found some very interesting discussions here. My question is going to be really complicated and it will take you some time to read

I mean you heard it completely like this and wrote it down or with your experience you made the sentence in a way that is correct though having not recognised it clearly. The former. I actually heard it completely. I did not invent anything on the

I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Only in spoken English. But in written English, some contractions are not usually written that

Hmmm. Nobody's talking about this one, either. Weird. Yes, I am very much into more serious films these days; in fact, I just also saw the Swedish TV documentary Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie , which is all about the eponymous director making

I think you may be asking for explicit, black and white answers, to questions which don't lend themselves to such answers. There seem to be two problems in that there are: *Differences between British and American usages. *Differences in

I don't hear it used often by white people (unless used deliberately, for example in songs), but African Americans seem to use it more regularly in everyday informal speech, so it depends on the variety of English you want to consider.