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Hello, Pleasehelp, I have the same shirt and I've got the same shirt. - in terms of have/have got, they are identical, you are right. Please note that have got is commoner in BrE than in AmE. Some British speakers use have got to express the
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gleb_chebrikoff
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Hey I just see a few things that need to be corrected. I tried to help you yesterday but as soon as I submitted my reply, the site was done for maintenance and I lost it!
When something hurt to me
I'm happy that your family support you.
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benny777
180 days ago
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"I hope that you, the interns, and everyone else at the New Jersey Opera Club has a great summer!" I am never sure if i should use has or have in a sitation like this since I am wisihing it to a each member of a group iduvidualy. Shoud
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What about: "I heard his saying that ..."? Here, the word saying changes from a present partciple (PP) of the infinitive "to say" to a gerund (verb > noun) as evidenced by the possesive adjective "his"
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credoquaabsurdum
3 yr 351 days ago
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someone suggusted that
1: when the word "content " refers to the all the contents, it should be uncountable .
2: when the word "content" refers to part of all the contents, then it should be countable .
eg
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carmen l. abruzzi
5 yr 220 days ago
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As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make ... is fully conjugable, although some of its tenses are for the time being not used in today's English. In the same
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carmen l. abruzzi
5 yr 220 days ago
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I can say this much: I would feel deeply insulted if anyone thought I spoke like Steve Irwin. The most distinctive feature I've noticed in Steve Irwin's speech (compared to other Australians I've known and heard) is that his /a/ sound
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rich wales
5 yr 344 days ago
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I think normally people ask "where are you from" when asking for nationality. Would "where were you from" be considered ... of is if it is okay to use both present and past tenses on one sentence like the 2nd reply. In such a
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Quite possibly so. I do know that "I hear you" is an emphatic affirmation in Black American English. It means ... I imagine it came out of the African American church, as a form of "Amen" in response to a preacher. I don't
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