Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening! It is suddenly getting much colder in Korea. Especially, the flu is so rampant. Take care of your health. I'd like to ask you what a social linguistic failure is. From the book i

hello~ I wonder if there is any difference in nuance between ' hard ' and ' difficult '. For example, "He asked me a difficult question." vs "He asked me a hard question." Is there any difference in meaning and

Hello~ I have a quesiton about changing sentences into the exclamatory sentences. For example, " The mountain is very high ." When we transform the example sentence into the exclamation using ' how ', the answer is

Hello, Spring is coming here~! I would like to ask you about the order of adverbial phrases. "The rain lasted for five days in London ." -> The rain lasted in London for five days . Can I change the order of the phrases

Hi everyone in Englishforums! Would you please explain it below? "In the kitchen, there were loaves of bread in the oven. He could smell the baking loaves and knew that soon he would eat freshly baked bread" At first I think the boldic

To Buddhaheart, Thank you for your concern, but, I don't think you got the point. "settling the matter" cannot be IO in the given sentence. and this question is about extraposition of clausal O in SVOC/SVOA .

Hi, The question is from the book "A student's grammar of the English language"(by Sidney Greenbaum / Randolph Quirk/1990/11th printing) p.418 . When the object is an -ing clause in SVOC and SVOA clause types, it can undergo extraposition;

Thank you for your answer ! first two phrases became clear by your explanation. What about this; The alarm clock rang of itself. In this sentence, does "of itself" mean "automatically" or "although no one made it rang, it rang"?

As clive wanted me to present some example sentences using those phrases, i try to do it.... We moved the box from here to there by ourselves. We moved the box from here to there for ourselves. We moved the box from here to there of

hello guys I have some question about difference in meaning of " by oneself, for oneself, of oneself, to oneself, and in oneself " we often use those phrases but I hardly differentiate them from others in meaning. Would you like to help