Just continuing ahava yin's post....Will it be correct if we write : "I was (am ?) greatly saddened to know about your father's ill health........" or "I was (am ?) extremely worried to know...." or " I was(?) deeply (or much) distressed to

I am also a non-native speaker. I think your answer is correct. Because we use WHAT to ask a question about any thing and WHICH is used to show what things you are referring to or making a choice between two or more objects. I can not explain

Dear MountainHiker and CalifJim, Thanks a lot for the clear explanation. How easy you made it for me to understand!! And I found the answer of the statement I posted earlier.../False cognates are more likely a problem......Brazilian students

What is the meaning of false cognates? Please give some examples to make it clear. /False cognates are more likely a problem for Japanese and Korean students rather than Mexican or Brazilian students in English./ I know Japanese but don't

What does appositive mean? Regards.

Thank God! I didn't feel faint while reading that much. Hey Jim! Thanks a millon! How kind of you writing all this detail! Anyway, I am planning to start to take English lessons from you. Where do you live? You really have extensive knowledge of

//Corrct me if I'm wrong, but an enigma is something that cannot be explaind while a paradox is an enigma which could happen in real life (not strictly an impossible situation) // Excellent Chris! I didn't think about this use of enigma in

Enigma means a difficult problem or difficult to understand e.g. She is a bit of an enigma. Paradox means contradiction or difficult to understand because it has two opposite statements e.g. It's a curious paradox that drinking a lot of water can

Thank you so much for explaining the difference. While using the words lately and recently, sometimes in some statements use of lately seems to me awkward. Thanks to Jim, now I know the reason. BTW, dear MountainHiker, what is your phone

Thanks Jim, but I was watching a TV program (a long ago) and there it was something about recently and lately...I mean they were telling the difference between these two words. And they gave some examples where we can not use "recently", only