Hi. Is it all right to put the adverbs of frequency together with 'used to'? When young, I sometimes/often/occasionally used to go fishing. Doesn't 'sometimes used to' sound grating?

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Hi everyone, Which of the following two sentences sounds the more natural? He came near punching the taxi driver in the jaw. He came near to punching the taxi driver in the jaw. I think I have so far used the first. My dictionary,

Hello. 1. "That's enough," said the man . 2. "Thats' enough," the man said . Both are correct when the speaker (the man) is not a pronoun. 3. "That's enough," she said . 4. That's enough," said she . Sentences 3 and 4 seem

Hi, Paco. I am glad that you and I were taught the same way. Our distinction seems to have blurred over time. I shook my head the other day when I found in a very old book a question asking to choose between hate to V and hate Ving in a

Hi. I don't know where I got this---the usage of the verb 'hate'. What's in my head is: hate Ving: connotes habitual hate hate to V: connotes temporary hate ex) I hate answering the phone and very often just let it ring. (habitual)

It's necessary that a distinction be made between sentence structures. and are different in essence. When you use an object and the object is the agent of the action expressed by V/Ving, you cannot choose a to-infinitive. This applies to your

Hi MrP and CJ. The reason I asked this question was that I had a small argument over the usage of 'despite' with my nephew who is currently studying English with native speakers. He argued that his teachers had said the above pattern in

Hello everyone. Is "Despite that S + V..., S + V ...." acceptable? I know that without ' that ' it's obviously incorrect. In other words, would you accept the following sentence as standard? ex) Despite that you still owe me $100, I

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