Dear Teacher, There are two sentences in which I don't know how to pronounce the signs: pages 37-40 The ratio between these two pieces is thus 1:17 How to read 37-40? 37 to 40 or 37 through 40? Why? And how to read 1:17? Thanks in

Dear Teacher, When I read English, especially novels, I encounter a lot of two-word combinations and they are linked at random, so I cannot find them in English dictinonaries and don't know if they are compound words, such as legal-looking,

Thank you. When I read English, especially novels, I encounter a lot of two-word combinations and they are linked at random, so I cannot find them in English dictinonaries and don't know if they are compound words, such as legal-looking,

Dear Teacher, I meet the sentence in a novel: "Beverly gave me a smile then, but it had a hard edge to it." What's the meaning "it had a hard edge to it"? Who does "it" refer to? Please explain. Another

Dear Teacher, When I read English, I meet some knids of abbreviations and signs. How to read all kinds of abbreviations? Could we read their letters one by one? For example, the abbreviation of Maryland is MD, Can we read MD? pp.160? How to

Dear Teacher, I have met the sentence in a novel: ..., but the sides and back of the building were flat and unadorned, as though the architect had applied a Mediterranean veneer to a plain plywood box, adding a lip of red tile at the top to

Dear Teacher, When I read English I can meet many compounds among which there are many compounds written with a space. I look them up in English dictionaries to find that they don't give the stress patterns to them, only their meanings. What

Dear Teacher, There is a sentence: This tournament (golf) next year is a week after the Shanghai (HSBC Champions) tournament... What's the meaning of "week' in the sentence? How long? Please explain the meaning of

Dear Teacher, I'm reading a English novel. Please look at this paragraph: Everything is stucco, red tile roofs, bougainvillea, distressed beams, adobe brick walls, arched windows, palm trees, balconies, ferns, fountains, paseos, and

Dear Teacher, When I read English, I often meet proper nouns, especially names of people and places. But I don't know their pronounciation. What can I do? I have no this kind of dictionaries. There are some: names of people: millhone,