Thanks MrP! I really like your version! But what if we should form the question restricting ourselves to the words used in the answer, or just adding the least words possible? Thanks a lot! Mara. BTW, I'm not in favour of this kind of

Sorry Clive! We were both writing at the same time and I hadn't read your answer until I posted. Well, in fact, I don't want London to be the stressed information in the answer, if by "stressed" you mean "emphasized". I just underlined it for

Hi Sextus! Thanks for the answer but your question would receive such answers like: "It's nice", "It's a nice place" "It's a place comfortable to live in". You're asking a different thing: "What's it like?" and what I want to find is a question of

Hi teachers! Today, I had to explain to my students the somewhat controversial issue concerning the use of "their" in place of "his" with a singular antecedent. The sentece which prompted my students' question was the following: "The other

Hi people! This may seem a silly question, but I've been thinking over it for some time: If, in the following sentence I wanted to have "London" as an answer, what question should I ask? London is a nice place. Is "What is a nice

Thanks Clive! I think I should have expressed myself better. I didn't mean to give sentences #1 and #3 as an example of progressive uses. My aim was just to contrast the use of the verb "enjoy" in both stative and progressive forms. Regards,

Hi MM! I have a question regarding the sentence you corrected: "Shouldn't we use 'which'? If we shouldn't, then why it is so?" Shouldn't it be then why is it so? Thanks a lot! Mara.

Hi people! I've found an exercise on the future continuous tense and I think one of the sentences in it is wrong or, at least, not usually heard. Here it is: Andrew will be wanting to hear all the news about Sandra. Is this sentence

Hi people! I can't seem to understand the meaning of one of the sentences in the following extract. It was taken from the short story Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville. For those of you who haven't read it, let me give you a little bit

Thanks for your answers! Now, I'm a bit puzzled for I've found in one of Melville's short stories the following sentence: I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I have known very many of them, professionally and privately, and if I pleased,