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I don't know if this collocation is used in ESL/EFL locations other than Japan, but in Japan, it's really common. It's very likely a construction that was put in a textbook at one time and like so many other mistaken phrases, was believed to be the normal one for English.
As others have...
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Clive wrote:
2. You know how I didn't have my schedule? I had to come to this fitness center so early today to figure out my schedule. "didn't" means you didn't have it in the past but now, at the time of speaking, you do have it.
Best wishes, Clive
There's nothing in this that means that...
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infinity wrote:I don't know when it was, but the example of connecting a verb and proverb was discussed here in this forum. Some said, "Do you know if she is around and going to the meeting?" was ungrammatical, and the other said it might have been but it sounded perfectly OK. Then I am...
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conviction of one s logic b RanchHand I m afraid you don t understand I should have made myself more ...
beleive the usage should be right b RanchHand It s not so much a question of right Taka it more
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Paco wrote:
If you restrict your search domain to ".edu", the result would be like this:
"If I were you" 12,000
"If I was you" 689.
I think people come here to learn the variety of English spoken by educated people.
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The language scientists of the LGSWE spent...
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Thank you Jim. Succinctly put.
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"You may sometimes hear "was" used, since the subjunctive is relatively uncommon in English ..."
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Googled: Results 1 - 10 of about 5,060,000 English pages for "if I were".
"... and people sometimes forget to use it, ... ."
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Googled: Results 1 - 10 of about 3,560,000 English...
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I went to a restaurant and a cafe.
Is it possible to use the second article A?
I mean,"i went to a restaurant and A cafe"
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Absolutely!
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Since a tag is simply asking for an affirmation of what one already believes, either positively or negatively, tags with such a low degree of certainty are uncommon. If your feeling is marked by such unsureness, then the tendency wouldn't be to use a tag, though it's not impossible.
They might...
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Which is grammatically correct and why:
I wish I were there.
OR
I wish I was there.
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Both are grammatically correct because in modern English, the only thing needed to express a counterfactual situation is a past tense verb.
If I was you = I'm not you,
just as,
If I...
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