When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your

hi! I need an english native speaker to answer this question Is there any difference between these 2 sentences: I could have not eaten that I could not have eaten that I have always been told that the right word order is "could not have past

Hi Matt, and welcome to English Forums. I'm not sure I agree with your lecturer. In American English, we rarely say "I haven't time" - instead we say "I don't have time" but either way, "have" is the

What is the difference between "hope of early recovery" and hope for early recovery"? Thanks.

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

The questions on the right all require yes/no answers.  The ones on the left require some sort of statement to be made about circumstances (E.g. the location, the time, or the condition). This is a particularly important distinction to make when

Hi, 1.Is there any difference between 'the whole time' and 'the entire time' here? Not really. 'Whole' is perhaps more casual. 2."all this time shows we are speaking close to the time we are speaking about"

Hi! could anyone tell me what is the difference between the two sentences, please? 1) She is a beautiful ship. 2) She is beautiful a ship. Thanks a lot!

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your

Yankee wrote: I agree with Goodman but would like to add that this word order would also be very common: I was wondering what the difference between a planet and a star was / is . Hi all Strictly speaking, this is the only grammatically