Greetings, Petra, both could and may have a possibility meaning, but it is better to contrast may with can , since could in this meaning is seen only as a past form of can: We can hope for a good performance tonight. Her performance was the best

Hi If you dont mind could someone please check this character refernce i have rightn for my father. sorry to be a plan but i suffer from desxlia so im just trying to get ti right kind regard tom F.A.O Sentencing Judge. Re: Character Reference

I thought it might be 'antithesis' (or whatever it's called)- the surprise at the end, where the old lady prays for 'somebody's son ' after the boy has been thoughtful to 'somebody's mother '. That seems to me to be the significant figure of

It sounds more like second person to me. "Everything in these three bedrooms needs to be replaced." I don't see the word you anywhere in that sentence. How can it be second person? You need to review this. If the speaker refers only

Agatha, In my grammarbook it is said that every verb-phrase consisting of several verbs, the first will always be finite and the rest non-finite. - When I was a schoolboy, I once noticed that my English teacher made a mistake on the blackboard:

Hi, Raj. Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us! Could you please give us an excerpt showing the figure of speech you're asking about? Most poems are loaded with them. Best wishes, - A.

Debpriya, How to express the same feeling in the written words that is heard in tone of voice when speaking is one of the great challenges for a writer. It borders on poetry--the sound of the words in your mind and their cadence in the sentence

Coloraday, One is ashamed whose embarrassment and humiliation are mixed sometimes with a sense of guilt and always with the awareness of being discredited or disgraced by one's own or vicariously another's shameful or indecorous act,

i've just taken a mock TOEFL exam. here is my speaking response and i hope someone here will read it and tell me my mistakes (or correct words , grammar..)Thanks in advance. (bold words are sentences that i think they may have a problem)

I believe only one sentence of the two is grammarly grammatically correct. Both are correct. You can use either one, and they both have the same meaning. I would use the one with the present tense in a situation where I wanted to give the