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Mmm... I truly think that all this "languages' difficulties" deppend mainly about three things: - First; your mother language. Mine is Spanish, and I'm fluent in French, Italian and Portuguese (and also English... at least, I do my best...), and all of them belong to the same family, so, the...

Hello to everyone! I am the new one on the list and not sure are you going to be interested on the subject of the origin of the word "elephant" and the hypothesis that all Indoeuropean languages were based on the "formula" SUR-BEL+UM. Cordially, Dusan Vukotic "All Indo-European...

Hope, To tell you the truth, none of your example sentences are vey well written. tenacious winter: this is akward tenacious of power: not grammatical tenacious of life: not grammtical From Cambridge: tenacious Show phonetics adjective holding tightly onto...

From Cambridge...hope it helps. syntax Show phonetics noun the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence syntactic Show phonetics adjective SPECIALIZED syntactically Show phonetics adverb SPECIALIZED -- semantic Show phonetics adjective connected...

Hi, rishonly. I don't think there will be a master stroke for this. 'Just pay close attention to individual nouns' is the trick. I don't know how your English-Indian dictionary is printed. My dictionary shows in parentheses the prepositions that go with the nouns. For example, if I look...

hey i'm a Ist year FE student . i'm also new to this subject but i have got fair enough idea about it . it's all about improving our spoken english . right now we're learning phonetic transcription . interesting new way of writing . the grammar part is not too hard...

Has the word 'thee' become archaic? I'm afraid I'm not using the correct from of 'archaic'. How to call a word that has lost its true meaning or that has not been used now-a-days? Has the word become ARCHAIC noun SPECIALIZED a word or expression that is not generally used any more

Praveen, don't you look up your words in the Cambridge Online Dictionaries first? The examples there are really helpful. Here is the defintion and examples from that link: Definition stereotype adverb DISAPPROVING And here is the link itself, if you liked the definition and examples: ...

Well, latha, generally speaking, the rule says that between two vowels the sound must be pronounced /z/, as well as when you write and and sometimes . If it is next to consonants or it is written as a sibilant, then it must be pronounced /s/. For instance, has an /s/ sound. However, , or have a...