Welcome to the Forums. Well, you have to listen a lot . Always have dictionaries with pronunciation at hand. There are some talking dictionaries on CDs, I use the Cambridge advanced learner's and the Cobuild (the Cambridge has the phonetic

Well, it happens to all of us. I cannot believe how much I have forgotten!

Yes, Alienvoord is right. Sonarants (nasals, approximants, glides, and vowels) can be pronounced in that way.

"Directed" seems ok to me. If you're looking for another word, "aimed" perhaps?

Well, if you are talking about the differences and similarities of people or things, both with and to are used. However, if you want to say that something ar a person is like another thing or person, the correct usage is to : I can only compare

We can also write hmmmmm, arghhhh, shhhh. So it is not limited to vowels, but I don't think it can include every consonant! (However, if you google you see that faileddd, stoppeddd, nailll, pickkk, ... even annn are mentioned in many pages. So, I

Well, MH has done what I was supposed to do.

I'll check my source for the citation here, GG, for that new knowledge.

Well, as far as I remember reading from the Oxford's Practical English Usage ( I'm not sure about the title, I'll check my library later), because is used when the information is new, and since when the information is old. It means when the

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