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Hmm... So as denotes purpose, why? I bought a dictionary to learn English. Wouldn't place not between to and the verb. I would say: ... so as not to disturb you.So as for looks odd to me. I would say: As for / As to / With regard to / As regards leaving tomorrow, the trip is off.CB

Alright, the sentence is "It's time you learn English."Now I'm pretty damned sure there's something wrong with having the two verbs like that, but I'm not sure exactly what's wrong with it, if anything at all.Any help is greatly, greatly appreciated.

Method OF Learning is totally right, because here it's a noun. You could also use FOR, but I don't see any reasons to change that.But if your intention is using "learning" as a verb, like "I use this method to learn english", You SHOULD change that for TO. You can use...

But when you ask if something is correct and it has an incorrect element, it would be remiss of us to not point that out. Oddly, we expect that when people come to a forum to learn English and present their work as correct, they have taken all due care to ensure that it is correct. Silly of us, I...

Thank you very much CJ, Zerox, and Carson. You all have given me very valuable advices. After reading through all you said carefully, and then watching a couple of English TV programmes, I believe I can now tell the difference! The ending /z/ in most cases are much shorter, voiced but less...

Hello, Interesting thread. Just to let you know that in English we never say 'are you agree' because 'agree' is a verb (though it's a very common mistake by learners, I guess because we use an adjective to say we agree in many languages). Seonaid

Hi MkyolI'd like to point out a few things:- The word 'since' does not work in your sentence as it is written. It seems that you want to use the word 'since' to talk about 'from a point in the past up to now', but that doesn't work well with the verb 'started'. The start of something is usually...

Today is Tuesday,September 12, 2007 . I was joint a interview in S-Fone corp . It’s hard to pass because it’s very difficult . IQ part I did quite well but english part I did very bad .Tuesday next week , the result of interview will report, I am very worry because I am afraid i will be...

Hello, I am an English teacher who never thought he would post a message on the internet, but it just seemed so appropriate. Basically, English is so difficult because of its innumerable exceptions to rules. A student told me the other day, "at least when you see a new word in Spanish, you know...

Grammar Geek wrote: Kooyeen wrote:Hi,2. It's just a question of style. Write the way you like best, not the way people tell you to write. Unless you are like GG, lol. What do you mean by that, Kooyeen?Hi GG,you are a writer right? So you are in the professional writing field. I remember...