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Re: Paragraph

Goodman — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:33:29 GMT

Speaking from experience, I can assure you, as long as you maintain a strong learning desire and a tireless attitude, your English will improve with time. Exposure to natural English by reading and watching informative television programs definitely help develop a stronger vocabulary. Practicing words you learned in forums such as this one will allow you to learn from the experts and help you to get a feel how to use certain words. I am not just saying this. I know exactly how you feel because I had been there myself.
<<>>I know my sentences lacks only one thing. And thatâs "Charm".I think the word is "finesse"

<<>>And please tell me some sites where I can get words easily but still online dictionaries search for words we type in New words can be found everywhere if you pay attention to them. They are in magazine or newspaper articles, on TV newscast and dialogs. The only limitation to learning new words is the capacity of our minds. Keep it up!

Re: Standard spoken English

Grammar Geek — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:48:05 GMT

Hello Milky. Yes, your style remains, even when you post anonymously.

I would define it as the type of English you use when you interview for a white-collar job. The type of English you use when you testify before Congress. The type of English you use when you mean your significant other's well-bred, wealthy parents for the first time.

I would absolutely exclude omitting articles and verbs when they are needed in standard written English. I would not exclude instances when you simply don't have the vocabulary so you use words like "thing" and "stuff." I would not exclude the occasional "um" because some people are not good public speakers, despite their knowledge of and daily use of standard English.

It's how you speak when the know the rules for standard written English and want your style of speech to reflect your knowledge and use of it, and you don't want your speech to reflect your socio-economic or regional background. You are being as neutral as possible.

You don't have to use formal words when you speak in standard English. You do have conjugate, use articles, use proper auxiallary verbs, and so on.

Re: female word

Kooyeen — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:13:47 GMT

dior
to help me know more words

for science

If you need to know lots of specific terms for your job or your studies, I suggest reading about the things you are dealing with in English, from now on. That way, you'll learn lots of vocabulary in a useful context. Anyway, Wikipedia is a free and popular encyclopedia you can find on the net. There you'll definitely find lots of technical articles on reproductive organs.

Re: skimpy vs scanty

New2grammar — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:46:28 GMT

Do you mean seeing the word scanty used in writing or an article of scanty clothing? I can't quite understand the meaning of your sentence.

Anyway, yes. there are a lot of images on Google and I've seen it on TV. In fact, I've seen more revealing ones :) that my vocabulary isn't sufficient to describe.

Re: Fell or fallen

26TMNTJG2PG — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:48:40 GMT

To solve the problem, one has to understand tenses and voices (active and passive) apart from having a good vocabulary. I have come across an article titled TENSES which, if digested properly, should provide some help.

conversation: mistakes

Hela — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:31:14 GMT

Dear teachers,

Would you please help me correct this sentence?

He has an appropriate knowledge and way of thinking that helps him have a sensible conversation.

These are my views:

vocabulary: a) is "appropriate" wrong here and should be replaced by "sufficiant" ? b) is "way of thinking" wrong here and should be replaced by "common sense" ? c) what verbs can be used with "conversation" : to have, lead, conduct, something else ?

grammar: a) is it possible to use the article before "appropriate knowledge" even though "knowledge" is uncountable ? b) should the verb "help" be in the singular or plural ?

Are there other mistakes ?

Regards

Re: Native-speaker/native language

Tanit — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:03:57 GMT

Forbes

I remember listening to a radio programme about the varieties of forms of speech in Italy ... They simply change language like they change clothes without worrying about the status of their "home" speech.

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual, and although I can understand Sardinian, I am unable to articulate a sentence that contains more than a few words!

Many people who speak both Italian and their dialect, although able to switch from the first to the second depending on the context, speak a form of Italian that I would classify as regional and sub-standard. I noticed that people from Southern Italy (I have little experience of Northern Italy) who speak also a dialect usually don't speak standard Italian, but a form of language deeply affected by their dialect. Accent is not an issue. I find some grammatical structures odd, as well as the choice of some verb modes, tenses and aspects (ex. past simple versus present perfect, indicative versus subjunctive), and have problems with some vocabulary (let alone idioms, of course). I am usually able to understand the general meaning, though.

Re: How to expand vocabulary

Hillis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:14:57 GMT

I want to find a teacher or a expert who can finish the word which decribed as below:

writting an article or an story using special words which are listed by a table. there are two requirements on the article. first is every word in the talbe must be used by the article. second is total quantity words of the article is no more a particular number. if there are 1000 words in the table, let's say the number is 2000, or 3000. who is able to finish this game? contact me by email :hillis@163.com

If you think somebody can finish this article and use commom words, if yes. then we can read this article again and again. this method will enrich your vocabulary. me too.

Re: In need of Correction

nona the brit — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:47:11 GMT

My only correction is that you have missing articles before the names of the labs. In the practical section...In the research section...and possibly in the Mikrochem laboratory but I'm not sure if that is a type of lab (yes) or a Proper name (no).

I'm also not sure about the 'capturing' but this could well be a specialist bit of vocabulary I'm not aware of, as I am no scientist!

Re: Finally i need help with something.

Feebs11 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:36:26 GMT

BeginStudent
Hi ,
I have a little part to check from the project before I will give it tomorrow to my teacher.

This one paragraph (Summary of the project):

It wasn't easy for me to do this project because of the following reasons:
First of all, it was quite an issue for me to choose the most appropriate and most relevant materials. Furthermore, it was hard for me to divide our work load equally, because the project is quite big. We thought that everyone would do a half of the sun-topics for each part. [You start with "me" and then refer to "we" - is there a previous reference to a group doing this research together?]
Second, when I chose the articles the language was really complicated and it wasn't easy for me to understand all the words and to choose the key sentence. While doing this project the most interesting part for me was the reading because we didn't have to write a lot and all the printed material seemed rather interesting. Reading a lot of authentic English articles helped me a lot. I improved my writing skills and my vocabulary extended.

Second paragraph is :
3)How do peope spread heroin?

Heroin is being trafficked all over the world.The biggest producer is Afghanistan.According to research, 87% of heroin is being produced in Afghanistan.Heroin is very easily distribute around the world because it can be compactly packed and easily concealed. ~~Heroin is also being spread all over the world because~~ People can swallow it [the small packages of heroin] like pills and during 24 hours [ 24 hours later] they can ~~puke~~[vomit it up] easily .
Those unfortunate people who swallow the "pills" may die because of it .The "pills" are little bit bigger than the normal size pills and it they can get stuck in the throat or it [the packets] may be torn inside the stomach and cause death, even without using the heroin as a drug .
In conclusion, the heroin may be spread all over the world easily, but the consequences may be shocking .

paragraph three is :
4)What is the history of heroin ?

Heroin was first discovered in ~~1847~~ 1874 by C.R Alder Wright, a British chemist from London, by mixing different substances [what substances? and why?] together. Another scientist was Felix Hoffman~~.He~~ [who also] created ~~the~~ heroin, not as a drug but as medicine to cure people. And he invented the heroin only two days after he discovered ~~the~~ aspirin.
In 1914 , in the USA , the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was passed to limit the production of heroin all over the country to reduce the number of users.By this law, heroin could be sold to consumers such as addicts that may lie to the seller.As we see, the law didn't reduce the number of users ~~but~~; it just increased that number. In the UK, even though the heroin is considered as an 'A' class drug, it is still available on prescription~~.The heroin is~~ as a painkiller drug .
In conclusion, we see that the history of heroin is a long term history and far back at the time [not particularly far back - heroin was only discovered in 1874] we can see that this drug has been used not just for addicted people but as a medicine as well.

What can you check i really appraiser it .
Thanks.

HAve you said anywhere what heroin derives from? You also need to say that it was originally produced as a painkilling medicine, before its addictive nature was recognised.