Hi, Can a grammar expert help me understand this? Is this for spoken English only or is it accepted academically too? A) Sentences: 1-Jack's not worried. 2-Jack is not worried. The 's in the first sentence is something we hear in

You are not only incorrect. you are terribly confused. Apostrophes (note spelling) indicate possession and operate independently of number (singular/plural) in their referent: This year is 2010. This year's quiz is hard. This year's quizzes are

My daughter was given an assignment to use no's in a sentence. Is it possible that the teacher used no's as an abbreviation for numbers and wants your daughter to use numbers in a sentence? CJ

These sentences are intended to be written in Standard English that is informal enough for correct use of contractions to be acceptable. In each sentence, cross out or delete the incorrect words and write the corrected words. 1.My advice is that

Your first reference (digitalhistory.uh) does not single out 'must've' in its great scheme of things I'm afraid I entirely disagree. To me, it quite clearly does single out "must've", along with a number of

Hi, maybe this should go in the ESL Tests Section, but since it's a pretty complex topic, I'll post it here in the linguistic section. Does anyone know if dialectal variations are taken into account in/on the major ESL tests, such as CPE,

Not clearly. You can use the octothorpe: #s 1-6 .

Dear friend, the point is that the abbreviation is not technically English, but Latin: Latin ' numero' ( in number ) --- n umer o --- no./No. Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff

I never use abbreviations. No, you didn't, and I apologise if it appeared that I wrongly included you as a target of my rant. do you think you can tell me what you think about toms correction as he says he's a english

CJ, you can publish your rules as an ebook. There are some books that also deal with similar problems. For instance, Masha Bell's "Rules and exceptions of English spelling" does a similar job. "Although 80 of the 91 basic