Hi, I have a question. When I used "I'm anxious for your arrival" to mean "I'm looking forward to your arrival", my teacher(nonnative English speaker) told me that I should avoid using "anxious" in that

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

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

@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } Hi, I'm very much interested in this issue and can't make up my mind, besides I'm writing a paper on it so it would be of great help to see what other

Get an electronic pronouncing dictionary and practise your pronunciation every day for 10-20 minutes, without exceptions. Use books with English idioms, and practise with your computer/laptop and a piece of paper. Pick out a word. Try to predict

Hi, I booked my place on the long-distance bus for the next day. This is British English, not American English. In the US it's called a bus. In England if it is a local service it's a bus. If it travels further afield, it's a coach.

In following paragraph,which I quoted from the book, "Principles of economics", I think the verb in "that was the main" should be were not was. Am I right? The energy crisis of the 1970s, too, was blamed on nature's