More legalese! An attorney would be so helpful to you... Have you looked up attorn in an on-line dictionary? - I like www.dictionary.com because it compiles meanings from many sources, including specialty dictionaries Merriam-Webster's

Speaking as an American teenager: Girls will say "I went out with my girlfriends " (meaning friends who are girls), "I went out with my boyfriend " (meaning a boy whom they are dating), or, at least with teenagers, "I went

Can you just correct some simple sentences for me. I wonder if them are right or not. 1. I believe that this trait of mine would help me to be a good teacher. 2. A translator whom I look up to said a language learner who consistently

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones,

Milky wrote: CalifJim wrote: A native tells me that it does occur in such as the second example. The native must have misunderstood the question. Does it No. , and if it does, why? And is it widespread? No. "gonna" has to be followed by a

Anonymous wrote: It really bugs me the way Americans say a 'British' accent because more than one country makes up Britain, there is England, Scotland, and Wales, all of which have very different accents. Then of course all three countries have

3. The questions are designed to be relevant to speakers of English worldwide, not just in the United States. Designed badly, then, in my view. Most of the questions seem to relate to purely American linguistic oddities. I do ... Hello,

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule here. However: If you have a two syllable word that ends with an 'a', it's typical that the vowel in the first is short. Like 'dada', 'feta', etc. This is not a rule so much as a pattern that should

Anonymous wrote: yo guys! i've read all your comments...and i gotta say i've lost any hope to learn english...reading or hearing how others talk kinda depresses me cos i realize that i'm very bad at it, that i can't speak at all. nobody can

Mjcbrown wrote : Unlike as in Germany, regional accents have been retained by the working classes and now are still distinctive of the working class and as such bear a "working class" stigma . Presumably this means "retained only by the working