Forum: English Questions 
Dec 3rd, 2022, 01:53 am
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Views: 12,924  Zero or First conditional?
Hi everyone! I was wondering if you could help me figure out the following if conditionals. Are they zero or first conditionals?
1.I can't get to sleep if I drink a lot of coffee. ( Can I replace...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 11th, 2022, 05:27 am
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Views: 2,641 Cause of or cause for
Hi everyone.
1.It's a main cause of cancer.
2.lt's a main cause for cancer.
I guess (1) is correct but why? What's the difference between ' cause of' and 'cause for'?
* Can we replace 'cause' by '...
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Forum: English Questions
May 18th, 2022, 09:54 pm
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Views: 2,767 If conditional
Hi everyone!
I heard the following sentence from a non native speaker, is it grammatically correct to use the mixed conditional like this:
*(If only I eat spinach, I would make it the daily main...
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 29th, 2022, 09:50 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 28th, 2022, 10:41 pm
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Views: 3,201 Re: The future seen from the past
Do you mean it's correct to say 'I knew she'd be working late, so I wouldn't call her at the crack of dawn' as future in the past without adding any word to the sentence? Just
Changing 'won't' into '...
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 27th, 2022, 10:37 pm
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Views: 3,201 The future seen from the past
Hi everyone! can you tell me what meaning the word 'wouldn't' could carry if we used it instead of ' didn't' in the following sentence:
* She'll be working late, so I won't call her at the crack of...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 14th, 2022, 09:45 am
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Views: 2,654 Re: Grammatical advice
Could you please explain to me why is" will contact" is incorrect? I intentially used "contact" as a verb in and I thought it might be OK.
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 14th, 2022, 05:53 am
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Views: 2,654 Grammatical advice
Hi everyone!
I'd like to write a letter to a friend giving him advice on how to get a job.But I came across some grammatical problems that are shown below:
"In the interview, you (should wear/...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 22nd, 2021, 10:53 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 19th, 2021, 08:21 am
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Views: 2,974 Re: The noun before a relative pronoun
"The hotel has a swimming pool that is very big."
Is this defining realtive clause " identifying" or " classifying?
Thank you very very much for helping me out.
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 15th, 2021, 01:32 am
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 14th, 2021, 07:50 am
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 14th, 2021, 07:44 am
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Views: 2,974 The noun before a relative pronoun
Hi everyone.
In a textbook, I found the following:
* The hotel has a swimming pool. It is very big. (Combine with a relative clause)
The answer is: The hotel has a swimming pool that is very...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 13th, 2021, 10:35 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 13th, 2021, 04:10 am
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Views: 2,762 Present per./ present per. cont.
Hi guys!
I was wondering which sentence is more natural. And why?!!!
1.We are films producers. We have been making films since we graduated from college.
2.We are films producers. We have made films...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 12th, 2021, 11:00 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 11th, 2021, 11:13 pm
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Views: 3,481 Re: Relative Clauses
* The man stole the money. He must be punished.
But in the textbook, I found one answer is possible, which is:
"The man who stole the money must be punished."
And I don't know why. Maybe it...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 11th, 2021, 12:00 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,481 Relative Clauses
Hello everyone!
In the following sentences, when the noun is at the begining of the first sentence, the relative clause should be the second sentence:
1.The boy is cute. He lives next door.
=The boy...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 8th, 2021, 07:08 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 2,541 Used to
Hello everyone!
" I used to smoke but I quit last year."
" There used to be a building here but they knocked it down two years ago."
"I used to have a bike but someone stole it last month."
In the...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 28th, 2021, 11:17 am
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Views: 2,630 Future tenses
Hello everyone!
I came across these sentences:
1." She's going to tell Jack he passed the test."
2."I won't get a good grade on this test.
It was too difficult."
My question is: Is it correct to...
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 31st, 2020, 10:46 am
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 29th, 2020, 11:05 pm
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Views: 2,800 Re: Past s. & past c.
I was wondering If it is possible to complete the following sentences using the past simple in the negative:(an action happened in the middle of another one)
I was playing football...
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 29th, 2020, 12:43 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,800 Past s. & past c.
Hi everyone!
When an action happened in the middle of another one in the same time, esp. with the use of(as/while, when/and), I noticed that the shorter action(the past simple) doesn't come in the...
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 30th, 2020, 10:23 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,661 Re: Meaning
Thank you so much, my friend. Your answer is really helpful for my understanding.
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Forum: English Questions
Mar 28th, 2020, 10:09 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,661 Re: Meaning
Thanks a lot , my friend.This will help me in translating these sentences into another language.So the preposition "from" in 1 is similar in meaning here to "by using" like we say :make more money by...
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