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Warrener wrote:
Here is a sentence:
That half of the light would be lost were it not for the extraordinary structure of the scales.
Is this a special grammar usage?
It means the same thing as,
If the scales didn't have the extraordinary structure they do, then that half of the light would...
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Rishonly wrote: Danyoo wrote:
Approaching a stranger in a foreign country, and hoping to be able to communicate with him or her in English, we say "Do you speak English?"
I would agree. And the reason is because 'do you' sound more polite than 'can you'.
Hi Danyoo,
One quick point: The ...
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Robsee wrote:I saw the following sentence in a German magazine:Some places, they call it a rodeo.Here, they call it a cowboy being a cowboy.My problem is this "being" in the second sentence. I would have written the sentence like this:Here, they call it a cowboy who is a cowboy.Thanks in...
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Rishonly wrote:
The high court was the former gang leader's last chance to avoid death by injection after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied him clemency earlier Monday and a federal appeals court panel rejected a request to stay his execution.
Do we need a comma in front of 'and'...
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Chompipe wrote:Hi everyone,Suppose I have the following sentence:
I will not go to the cinema. If I now convert it to reported speech, I'd have to say:
He said he would not go to the cinema.
What if I want to do it without a backshift in tense? Would "will not" still become "would not"...
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Jack112 wrote:
I saw this online:
1. Radio, television, and telephone transmissions have, until recently, been sent through the air and over wires using electromagnetic waves. These waves are called analog because they have the same shapes as the light and sound waves produced by the...
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People do not talk ungrammatically. The grammar of the written language, SWE/SFE, is much different than the grammar of spoken English. Language science knows this and has proven it time and again.
In speech, we often say; "Here's/where's/there's + plural noun". In fact studies prove that this...
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Japan wrote:
Hello guys
I have one question long about ' I could have danced all night' in 'My Fair Lady'.
It has a passage of "I only know when he began to dance with me, I could have danced all night." Is that a third-condition?
If so, I think the conditional clause should be "he had begun...
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Jack112 wrote:
Scenario: I was playing computer games earlier and I still am and my friends drops and asks me if I'm done with my homework and I say:
1. I think I would be done by now if I hadn't messed around.2. I think I would be done by now if I didn't mess around.
Which one would I use?...
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science_guru wrote:
How about the following sentences?
1) "Whome should I contact?" This seems to be grammatically correct.
2) "Who should I contact?" This seems incorrect but is accepted by educated speakers and is considered correct.
Both are grammatically correct just as 'you' for...
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