Forum: English Questions
Jul 1st, 2012, 05:54 pm
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OK thanks.
In fact, I got that idea from a famous writer who had been working in the department of English at Western Michigan University. Maybe he had got a bias.
thank you susan
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 1st, 2012, 05:50 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 27th, 2012, 08:35 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 26th, 2012, 09:12 pm
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Views: 3,608 the past perfect tense
A sentence:
"he told me that I won that day."
of course the meaning is clear: winning precedes telling.
I read a book written ten years ago by a university teacher, and he said the sentence is...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 26th, 2012, 09:10 pm
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Views: 2,561 will be / is
A candidate in an election says:
"it is an honour to be elected"
of course the present tense can be used to talk about future:
eg the train departs at 7:00 am
but I think the red sentence is...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 26th, 2012, 09:02 pm
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Views: 3,208 Re: is this sentence structure often used?
Zero Hits.
but I wonder why this can be used? On what does this website based?
Internet users' tying?
(it is a good tool. but to recommend to other non-English users maybe I have to explain to...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 25th, 2012, 11:10 pm
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Views: 3,208 is this sentence structure often used?
several sentence I found in 18-century essays:
It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 25th, 2012, 08:38 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 19th, 2012, 08:58 am
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Views: 3,421 Re: the strange OF and FOR
but... maybe I was unclear in stating the question
let me rewrite it:
could you tell me what's the most usual or common way Englishmen learn English?
(eg The Chinese study articles written two...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 19th, 2012, 08:50 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 18th, 2012, 09:37 pm
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an answer can't be better. thank you very much.
(by the way, susan you said it's no good way to learn English by reading something written in 18th c.; then what's the usual or most common way for...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 18th, 2012, 09:32 pm
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Views: 11,698 Re: THE before an adjective
then should should THE be deleted in "the southern United States"?
(in "Flash flood warnings for southern England", which is a headline, articles are usually deleted; could this be used as...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 17th, 2012, 10:57 pm
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Views: 11,698 Re: THE before an adjective
mmm...it gives food for thought.
in wiki, I've found a sentence:
A similar situation is "ink pen" instead of just "pen" the southern United States, where "pen" and"pin" are pronounced similarly....
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 17th, 2012, 10:53 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 13th, 2012, 10:47 pm
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a sentence:
His reign was much shorter than the reigns of both his father and his son.
to rewrite it:
His reign was much shorter than the reign of his father.
so, usually I write it :
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 13th, 2012, 10:32 pm
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Views: 11,698 THE before an adjective
HI
I've got a sentence here:
The formulation of the Grand Council began, an institution which have an enormous impact on the future of imperial China.
This sentence gives me the doubt whether a...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 13th, 2012, 07:24 pm
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Views: 3,421 Re: the strange OF and FOR
In the discussion of grammar, one thing has sprung to my mind.
Hamlet: sleeping in mine orchard, a serpent stung me.
of course the subject doesn't agree with the action SLEEPING.
Two non-Englishmen...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 11th, 2012, 08:19 pm
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Views: 3,421 Re: the strange OF and FOR
very detailed answer. Thank you very much.
(I will have to think about this problem. In fact, my job is to teach grammar only, and I asked that question because a senior student fond of Johnson...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 9th, 2012, 08:39 pm
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Views: 3,296 the hero in the novel is ...
A student wrote, 'the hero in the novel is ...'
I said that in should be replaced by of. But he said an English teacher had taught him so.
My native language is not English. Do you think the quoted...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 7th, 2012, 06:14 am
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Views: 3,421 Re: the strange OF and FOR
I was wondering whether there was grammar (when did it actually start?) in johnson's times?
your answer is absolutely reasonable; but I simply can't use such an answer to tell a student (probably I...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 5th, 2012, 02:42 am
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Views: 3,421 the strange OF and FOR
in PREFACE TO A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
from what I have learnt, OF can always be traced and put to another place when used at the beginning of a sentence; so the above sentence can be...
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Forum: English Questions
May 28th, 2012, 05:45 pm
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Forum: English Questions
May 25th, 2012, 11:18 pm
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Views: 7,675 Politics and the English Language
hi,
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit)
in this sentence, what is the traditional meaning of the hammer and the anvil? I...
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