Forum: English Questions 
Jan 28th, 2012, 01:25 am
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Views: 6,644  Re: A Dictionary of the English Language
Sorry, I once again made the statements unclear. But thank you very much.
(I did try to use different threads and more words to make it clear, but I was using a mobile phone to surf
the net, and...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 26th, 2012, 03:02 am
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Views: 6,644 A Dictionary of the English Language
HI, I have several English problems, and I desperately need your help.
In the preface of A Dictionary of the English Language, by S. Johnson, I find "the English", which does not mean the people but...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 19th, 2012, 09:25 am
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Views: 9,021 Re: letter to lord chesterfield
Thank you very much.
I got this idea from Michael Swan's A Practical English Grammar,
but Mr Swan did not tell me whether such a sentence is grammtically OK:
Looking up, seeing me, he smiled.
OR ...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 18th, 2012, 06:57 pm
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Views: 3,595 Re: doubt over salutation
Sorry, I did not make myself understood.
I just wanted to know whether the reason is 'we do not use the Christian name in the salutation part'
I had this doubt because my teacher told me this,...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 18th, 2012, 06:40 pm
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Views: 9,021 Re: letter to lord chesterfield
I was not talking about this function of AND, but thank you very much for your detailed answer.
There is an excerpt from Cardboard Box:
Holmes lay curled upon the sofa, reading and re reading a...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 18th, 2012, 06:01 am
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Views: 9,021 Re: letter to lord chesterfield
I know that we should say 'we sit THE history paper'
How should I explain to others that THE is not omittable?Is it due to the attributive noun 'history'?
Second, we can say: we do sth, doing sth...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 18th, 2012, 02:49 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 17th, 2012, 04:14 am
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Views: 3,595 doubt over salutation
I am used to writing 'Mr Johnson' at the beginning of a letter;once I had a slip in pen and wrote Mr Samuel Johnson, and my teacher told me that I was wrong, but I do not understand. COULD ANYONE...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 17th, 2012, 03:47 am
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Views: 9,021 Re: letter to lord chesterfield
YES, I found it on the net, and, incidentally, that website is a good recommendation.Your command of the language is excellent; may I know which country are you from?
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 16th, 2012, 11:57 am
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Views: 9,021 letter to lord chesterfield
I was reading Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson, but I found a sentence difficult to understand, and I need your help.
qoute:Is not a patrons my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 14th, 2011, 06:33 am
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Views: 7,081 Re: starting from 1st January, I will
I raised this question just because I had never seen something like:
Even in OED I cannot see such a thing as 'judging from...' or 'weather permitting', which are of course grammatical through...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 12th, 2011, 08:18 am
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 3rd, 2011, 01:55 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 3rd, 2011, 12:15 am
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Views: 3,860 Re: George Orwell's English
another question:
In this sentence, must the definite article be replaced by an indefinite article?
How about if Churchill is not dead and he is the only former prime minister alive?
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 31st, 2011, 01:36 pm
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Views: 3,860 George Orwell's English
George Orwell's English is excellent, but there is something I cannot understand.
In the last sentence of this excerpt from You And The Atomic Bomb, I find the preposition FOR inexplicable;of...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 22nd, 2011, 01:12 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 21st, 2011, 11:16 pm
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Views: 28,903 raise questions to/with sb
raise questions to/with sb
in this sentence, which preposition should be used?
I read this sentence on an article by a famous columnist, of whom in fact I am a great disciple, and he said that...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 19th, 2011, 11:25 am
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 18th, 2011, 08:36 am
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Views: 15,832  'will be being+past participle'
I was wondering whether there is any grammtical form like 'will be being+past participle'. I think in theory there is such a thing, but I have never seen it in books. Does anyone have any idea?
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