I chuckled as well.It was quite amazing seeing her cracking jokes at her own expense when nowadays we seem to except people go on to university after high school.

Hi Dela This is what I think. Say the argument is on whether capital punishment should be abolished. Students who argue in the negative might only scrutinise their opponents' reasoning, of which they already disapprove, for fallacies, instead

Thanks for the follow-up MM. Yea. I can relate what you said to my dependence on a calculator. I find myself using a calculator to compute simple arithmatic when before I could chunk it out mentally. I hope this disappearace of the spell checker

Thanks for replying MM. I miss the spell check function we used to have. Could I say 'come off' instead of 'come across'? I checked the phrase with dictionaries and I'm not sure if I could use 'come off' to rougly

Thanks for the follow-up CJ. Just wondering. '...that..' can only refer to a noun phrase right? I mean it can't be used as a reference to 'democracy is an aspiration' right? Thank you again PBF

Thanks for replying MM. Would 'I choked on my water' be a natural thing to say if you heard some incredible news whilst you were drinking water? Thanks again PBF

Hi all Does this sound natural? Did I used the phrase 'come across' correctly here? What about '...,who...'? Leah is Kate's sister, who is a celebrity. When asked if she was envious of her sister's status, Leah said

Thanks for your replies. Clive, just to clarify, the reason you moved up 'by which time...' is that the phrase should come right after the year right? Thanks again. Thanks for moving this thread Tanit. PBF

Dear moderator I meant to post this thread in the general questions forum. I would appreciate if you could move this to the right forum. Thank you. PBF

Thanks for replying Avangi. Just to clarify, there isn't a special reason why you wrote 'the camps' instead of 'the concentration camps' right? Thank you PBF