Thanks a lot CB & CJ .. So, it's a matter of stress .. ! But !! 1) - What about ( happen / open ) in the British English !!? Can the last consonant be doubled !? 2) - What is a diphthong ? Thanks again

Hi , everyone .. It's known that we double the last letter when adding the suffix (-ing) to the verb if preceded by a vowel .. run --------> running swim ------------ > swimming and so on .. Now what about these ?? play / fix / stay /

In fact I don't know hot to say thanks dear Clive .. That helped me so much .. Million of thanks my dear ..

Peace be upon you all .. Three questions have recently confused me .. 1) When someone you very well know passes by you .. but he pays no heed to you and never gives you any greetings .. Does he/she ( ignore or neglect ) you ? Is there

Peace be upon you .. Can this tense ( The Future Continuous ) be changed into passive ? If so .. How !!? e.g . Mark will be collecting a friend tomorrow at 10 .. Is it correct to say : - A friend will be being

Great .. Thanks wolf .. That was a great thing to clarify the difference between both types .. But there is something I'd like it to be explained .. Please have a look at my previous replies in this very post .. Thanks again ..

What is Paradoxically ? A- Unexpectedly B- Logically C- Indifferently ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Peace be upon you Khali .. Paradox is a situation or statment that seems strange or impossible because it contains

Thanks alot .. Lil' Ruby Rose .. But why can't I use ( for improving ) ? I ever know that .. ( to + infinitive ) = ( for + verb-ing ) So why can't I use it in the senetence mentioned earlier ? On the other hand , I took a

Dear Grammar Geek .. Dear CalifJim .. I'd like to ask about the the aspect of the mistake in the sentence above .. Is the sentence wrong owing to adding ( by someone ) as we needn't often know the agent of the sentence in the passive

Peace be upon you all .. It's an answer for an easy question , but the answer includes a mistake or more ! I don't know for real ! Here is the question in this mini-dialouge :- Mark / Why are you reading this grammar book , John ?