I am working on an article for Script Mag on global cinema, and am stuck on the @&*%$@## lead - I want to open with 3 examples of people in far off probably rural areas watching movies. Not in a traditional cinema. Now, i was gonna just make

Hii, I have a question related to this that nagged me for some time in the past and that I forgot ... until I saw this thread. I know that there's a special word order when we have as - how - so - too , the indefinite article, a noun and an

I went to the cinema and I liked the film very much - I went to the cinema and I liked very much the film Why can´t I say the second one? The word order of the second sentence would be possible in many languages that have special cases for

Hi, teachers. I wish you could help me when you are free. "He might have won the state had not James Birney received more than fifteen thousand votes in New York." This sentence is a part of an article of VOA Special English.

. Could I interprete the issue of extending the article "a" to the other two that follow like? Could I take/treat nouns "philosophy" and "religion" as uncountable and would you consider that acceptable?-- As the word

Hi, Is the following sentence correct? And so has done Lance Armstrong, an American cyclist, having won the Tour for a record-breaking seven consecutive years. I've had doubts about the word order. The start of the sentence is so closely tied

I have taught English as a Second language to new learners. The question/answer pair "What is this?" / "This is a ..."  is lesson 2 (after introductions "Hello, my name is...", "What's your name?") t

"why was late reply" is not a sentence. It has no meaning. In English a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (. ; : ? !) In addition, you seem to have omitted a definite or indefinite article or a

The problem is following: being not a native speaker I wonder what "good standard English composition" means rather than about the assertion of its necessity. I see the greatest problems as follows: Foreigners' errors, leaving out

Hi all! I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little