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Re: Waht is difference between using ing in gerund and ing in participle ?

Nader75 — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:22:10 GMT

Thnak you . and I'm sorry again for the spelling.

Question about recive a notification:

Why I couldn't recive a notification in my email for reply?

Re: Waht is difference between using ing in gerund and ing in participle ?

CalifJim — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:06:08 GMT

A gerund acts like a noun; a participle acts like an adjective.

Rolling in the dirt was a favorite pastime for our new puppy.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Nader: You're doing it again. The word is what, not waht. Please be more careful with your spelling!!!

Re: Waht's difference between :Waht's up and Waht's new.

Nader75 — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:48:52 GMT

Thank you for help and I'm sorry for bad spelling.

Re: Waht's difference between :Waht's up and Waht's new.

CalifJim — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:27:31 GMT

Spelling, spelling, spelling, Nader75!!!!

What - not waht.

What's up? and What's new? mean the same thing. The first is more casual.

Re: Waht's difference between :Waht's up and Waht's new.

Clive — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:26:38 GMT

Hi,

Waht's difference between :

Waht's up and Waht's new.

If said as a casual greeting, there's no difference. However, with young people today, the former seems much more common.

Check your spelling of 'what', and use question marks.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Plurals of abbreviations - 1990's or 1990s

Anonymous — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:33:21 GMT

I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in the cases of "Ol' Dirty ***" or "N'awlins." This understadning of the usage of apostrophes is important for thinking about the 1990s/1990's problem. If you were to spell out the actual words 1990 and 1990s/1990's, you get the words "nineteen ninety" and "nineteen nineties." The difference between these two words is a "y" and an "ies." The possessive spelling of 1990's would be "nineteen ninety's," the plural, "nineteen nineties." The abbreviated representation of the possessive should clearly be 1990's, but what about the plural? One could argue that the apostrophe in this case stands for the omission of the "ie" in "nineteen nineties"

Re: Some more questions

Clive — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:01:10 GMT

Hi,

so what is the difference between spirtual values and spirtual welfare, <<< check your spelling

spiritual values Refers to my religious beliefs.

spiritual welfare, Broadly speaking, refers to my religious condition, my well-being.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: PLEASE can somebody check the below...

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:25:48 GMT

There is a difference between a "typo" and a "spelling mistake". Not sure how you can type "here" by mistake, when you intend to type "hear"! Smacks of a spelling mistake, rather than a typo to me.

Re: "s" and "z"

Carson21 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:25:56 GMT

I don't know what you guys are all on about with devoiced /z/. It's not a devoiced /z/, it's just /s/. In the example that someone above used, "vases"... I don't know about up North or across the pond (either one), but American Standard has that as /s/ in the medial and /z/ in the final. Well, if you pronounce the <a> like you do in "bratwurst" or "father", then the medial would become /z/.

Pter, the basic rule is this: final <s> becomes voiced to /z/ when it is final in most verbs and/or after a voiced stop (/g b d/ etc). It remains unvoiced /s/ for most nouns and adjectives. It also can voice when the closest (previous) consonant was already /s/. (Abuses, vases, faces, places)

Here's the other basic rule that will probably help you, even if at first it seems to be "maddening the unhelpful": In English, there are a million rules, and every rule has a million exceptions. English is probably as far removed from a loglang as you can get, so it helps to just accept what you learn at face value and imitate it, rather than trying to figure out "why". You can ask "why" all day and use up all the time where you could have been moving on to the next rule. Look at the general rule for each case, then apply it. You learn irregularities as you go (much like learning Spanish verbs).

The perfect example of an exception: assess. It has /s/ in the medial AND final. D'oh! Just have to remember that one.

As for how important it is that you learn the difference between /s/ and /z/... I don't think it's that big a deal. If the spelling shows <s>, then saying /s/ or /z/ won't make much of a difference if your goal is to just be understood. They're allophones, essentially. We could drop <z> from our orthography and get along just fine. However, if your goal is to sound like a native speaker, then, yes, it's quite important that you can make the distinction.

Last, if you pronounced all <s> as /s/... You might sound strange to most people in the UK and the northern United States (plus the commonwealth), but anywhere in the West, Southwest, South East, and Border states in the US, no one would think twice about it! There are a lot of people in those regions that speak English as a second language with Spanish as their first, and they tend to always use /s/ for <s> , regardless of typical conventions.

Re: HELP need urgent answers to my English questions

Goodman — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:04:25 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

Hello...can someone plse help me asap, the following are my questions....

1. Why is the letter ' t ' not doubled in the word benefiting?

2. What rule or feature of English spelling appears in each of the following words? e.g. tape - the silent e makes the previous vowel long. pledge, starve, happier, guest.

3. Mark any phonograms of two or more letters by underlining them in the following words (which I guess is a bit hard when you are on line) e.g. shed (sh) start (ar) - the phonograms being the ones in brackets of course. whine, employer, drought, choking, floated, growth, stripes, college.

Thankyou to whomever answers me I will be very grateful. (P.S. I am in Australia)

I think this kind of questions are difficult to answer because the rules donâtâ seem to hold true all the time as there are exceptions and difference between BrE and AmE.

Rule says: One vowel + one consonant (but NOT w or y) Double the consonant, then add âED

i.e. tap â tapped, commit â committed , However, many other verb donât follow this rule, just like âbenefitedâ

In the US, âtraveledâ is spelled with one âlâ and I learned recently âtraveledâ is spelled with two âlâsâ on the other side of the pond.

I am afraid we just have to memorize them.