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Hello !Do you use the present simple or present continuous when you want to describe a kind of action that is temporary/in progress but somewhat in a kind of state,like for example: Are you hearing anything from Peter these days ? / Do you hear anything from Peter these days ?Which one is correct ?
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But the fact that the "w" is not pronounced. I cannot think of any other English word with a "w" which is not pronounced...why is Greenwhich an exception ?
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Hello !There's a question in my mind since ages: Why do you pronounce "Greenwhich" not like "green witch" but like "grannich" ? In other words: why is the w silent and the wide -ee- turned into a "closed" e ?
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Hello everybody !I've recently read a sentence (slang, without a doubt) that I don't understand:"They're from Coventry, mate. They're working lads, they're normal boys. They've gone to all the schools we've gone to. They're not up their own ***." (NME, 19...
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Hello everybody ! What does "off ter live" mean ?. The context is the following :'S-s-sorry,' sobbed Hagrid, taking out a large spotted handkerchief and burying his face in it. 'But I c-c-can't stand it - Lily an' James dead - an' poor little Harry off ter live...
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Hello everybody ! What does the expression "the nerve of him !" mean ? :Mr. Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren't young at all ; why, that man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak! The nerve of him!(J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the...
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Ah, thank you very much !
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Hi everybody,What does "jack" mean in the following sentence, please:"The heron pounded the air with its wings, jacked itself clear of the water and flew off down river."(John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, last chapter)
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Hello everybody !Does one have to say1) Press the button, then on comes this light.or2) Press the button, then comes on this light.?
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