By Vocabulary, Pronouns

Hello ngngmaiphuong, I can not find and correct all the mistakes in your essay (maybe some of my corrections are not correct), however I hope this can helpThe notion of making decision alone is untenable and the one that I definitely don't do not rely on. A good decision needs a broad...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

Grammar Geek wrote: So "to lay by" is a phrasal verb meaning "to store away"? New vocabulary for me! But anyway, when you have a phrasal verb like that (or like "look up" (as a word in a dictionary) or "write down") - do the prepositions act like normal prepositions, or because they are...

Hi, What added particular piquancy to that feat was that the goalkeeper was a substitute for the injured first-team goalie. Is there any words missing in this subject " what added particular piquancy to that feat " ? No. It's a noun clause. What he did is bad ? you see there is " he " But in...

Richard Side and Guy Wellman in Grammar and Vocabulary for CAE and CPE. There is a task which requires you to use one of the relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, that, which. They marked 'that' as the only alternative to fill the gap in the sentence in question. Inchoate

This is a pretty standard style, basic-level test, Blue Clown. Most of it is quite natural, though #18 is odd and #19 contains an odd pronoun (these don't affect the answers, however). Part IV, I imagine, is quite difficult, as it requires open choices from the student's vocabulary. Part VI...

Dear Jim, Where is this paragraph taken from? And is the following your explanation of the text ? The bad condition of his eyes came about suddenly; he was not expecting it.When blindness comes, it will be as if someone shut him up in the dark. (No one is really going to shut him up in the...

Well, I think it is a mistake to use rotten egg, because as I said, in English it refers to a person rather than a situation. And you already have mixed metaphors-- rotten egg and surreal trophy do not go together at all (nor do I have any idea what surreal trophy may mean-- beyond the fact that...

(A knock on the door) Mr. Ko: Who is it? (No answers. Mr. Ko opens the door and finds no one at the door, so he closes it. A little later, he hears another knock on the door.) Mr. Ko: Who is it? (Again, he opens the door and finds no one out there. A minute later he hears yet another...

Thank you very much, MrP. Now in my question: "In the following sentence how would you analyse the second "IT"? Is it a kind of demonstrative pronoun?"It was dark out there, and I couldn't really tell who IT was creeping about."Would you please explain this particular type of...