http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=user%3acarla&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'user:carla'en-USXMOD (Build: 3607.32596)http://www.englishforums.com/English/MobileCellPhones/pg/post.htm#939Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:46:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:939carlaHi - writing from the U.S., over here everyone uses "cell phone", though they would know what a mobile was. Often it gets abbreviated (in conversation, not in writing) to "cell", as in "call me on my cell" or "my cell is dead" (i.e. out of batteries). But it's just as often used as "cell phone" as in "I need to charge my cell phone tonight."http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatIsAnAdjectiveExamples/dch/post.htm#938Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:43:22 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:938carlaAdjectives are describing words (like good, beautiful, or blue) which are usually used with nouns (like person, flower or sky) to change them or give more information about the noun - for example a good person, beautiful flower or blue sky. More examples of adjectives: large, small, foolish, ugly, delicious, disgusting, red, green, yellow, English (as in the English girl), new, old.http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuotationMarksPunctuationGuest-Richard3/dbm/post.htm#904Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:38:42 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:904carlaFYI, in the United States almost all punctuation goes inside the quotation marks, so there the former would be correct. In the United Kingdom (and therefore Europe, I assume) it would be outside though, as hitchhiker says.http://www.englishforums.com/English/AnotherAttemptMoved/hd/post.htm#182Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:22:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:182carlaGo English Teacher Jools!!!http://www.englishforums.com/English/AnotherAttemptMoved/hd/post.htm#152Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:42:18 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:152carlaHi Sam, I would rewrite the piece like this: China is adapting its oil policy as a result of the current Mid-East crisis. Though it is the third largest oil consumer in the world after the United States and Japan, China has no oil reserves of its own. With the conflict in Iraq causing oil prices around the world to soar, Peking has responded by setting up a system of storage tanks with a 90-day supply of oil. The represents an investment of 1.5 billion Euros. Peking is also investing abroad, and has recently purchased more than 16% of an oil deposit in Kazakhstan, in an attempt to decrease China's dependance on the Middle East. Thanks to these wide-ranging moves, China has joined the most important oil company in the world. ...http://www.englishforums.com/English/OurFirstEssay/dd/post.htm#118Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:16:42 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:118carlaHi - just made some minor changes that I think make it read a bit smoother. Tom looked at the picture closely. It brought back so many good memories, deep inner feelings about his mum and his sister, both dead now. He couldn't remember having felt this sad for a long, long, time. They had been so incredibly poor, but so immensely happy at the same time. He remembered playing hide and seek in the streets with his neighbors in those humid stinky dead ends. His mum would always have a sweet word for him, and she had that strength in her profound eyes. She made him feel protected and well cared for no matter how difficult things were at home. Now, he had his trendy Mercedes Benz parked outside his palatial house, which had cost him...