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Forum: English Questions
May 5th, 2012, 09:50 pm
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Views: 4,444  care must be taken when answering this question
Usually, I write :
One sometimes cannot find the subject of a sentence when reading a Chinese book.
to lengthen it:
One sometimes cannot find the subject of a sentence when one is reading a...
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Forum: English Questions
May 5th, 2012, 05:22 pm
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Views: 2,842 Both are/were writers
Bertrand russell was a writer.
Nicolas Coleridge is a writer.
Both are/were writers.
In the 3rd sentence, could you tell me what tense should be used?
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 3rd, 2012, 08:25 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 3rd, 2012, 07:35 pm
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Views: 2,897 Examinations
There are two questions, but they can be closely related, so I put them in one thread.
1. In China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, in the public examinations and school internal examinations, in the writing...
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Forum: English Questions
May 2nd, 2012, 05:26 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 30th, 2012, 09:23 pm
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Views: 3,170  First Epistle to the Corinthians
In the First Corinthians, I found a sentence:
I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
In another edition, New Living Translation, this sentence has...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 30th, 2012, 09:09 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 30th, 2012, 06:44 am
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 30th, 2012, 01:52 am
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Views: 7,173 the grammar of Que Sera Sera
part of the lyrics:
Whatever will be, will be/ The future's not ours to see
A classmate asked me what is the sentence structure of the red part, and I told him that it might a special usage of...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 28th, 2012, 08:49 am
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Views: 2,902 the use of SUCH
In the FREE LUNCH item of the new word supplement list of Oxford 4th:
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
I think this sentence might be wrong, because THING is a countable noun, and an...
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