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conversation: mistakes

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...

Re: EFFORTS WAS REPAID

Hi, 1. After bitter and unstable days and months, he was determined to not get discouraged and and his persevering efforts was repaid. Finally he became a famous actor. - Is this natural to say? 'Was' is wrong, because 'efforts' is a plural word. I'd also make a few improvements in style and...

Re: grammar questions

1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were performed THROUGHOUT the next ten years"-- many times /every year in that periodb) "He had acted /...

grammar questions

Dear teachers, Would you please help me with the following difficuties? 1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were (?) performed THROUGOUT /...

Re: Play Judo

Hi, Thanks to those programs, my English is getting better. The narrators speak slowly, clearly, and precisely. My vocabulary chest is filling up gradually. However, I wish I could watch series about relationship and interaction between family members or people in regular daily life....

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

Forbes wrote:Cool Breeze, your English is faultless! I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head. In English the complexity resides in the syntax. Many say that English has no "grammar" because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions, but of course if it had no grammar...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Re: Can somebody correct half of this letter I have posted?

Tinaflurrs wrote:This is an assigned letter to my teacher for a portfolio assignment. What I am posting is only a portion of what I have written, just want your feedback for mechanical errors. Any great writer possesses the ability to obtain passion, creativity, and style that shapes a great...

Re: Please, correct my sentences.

Hi, You told me that the noun prosecution can take a singular verb form. It means it can also be written in plural verb form.So if you know the grammar explanation for it, please, let me know. It's not really a matter of grammar, it's a matter of vocabulary and meaning. We can think of and...

Re: evidences

The following point to the fact that the plural of 'evidence' is 'evidences'. The Collins Cobuild Dictionary for Advanced Learners also states that 'evidences' is the plural noun. I think it is a British English usage. 1. Includes (fols. 1-2) a draft of his preface to A defence of the Christian...