Forum: English Questions 
Aug 16th, 2015, 11:33 am
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 14th, 2015, 01:21 pm
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Views: 2,402  Re: woman, they
Excellent answer. Thank you. But a friend of mine, non-native, told me once we could say
-Woman (not women) is the most intelligent creature in the world.
without using the before woman either. Do...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 13th, 2015, 10:29 am
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Views: 2,402 woman, they
Could I say
-Woman was not advised to develop their (rather than her) own mind (rather than minds here) and opinions.
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 11th, 2015, 12:25 pm
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Views: 2,666 Re: inform
Good answer. Thank you. But for 'scheduling it in Term Two', on the basis of 'arrange sth for __' and 'schedule sth for __', would it be better to use FOR instead of IN?
What I worry about is, FOR...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 11th, 2015, 12:18 pm
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Views: 2,520 Re: on
Good answer. Thank you.
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 11th, 2015, 12:16 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 4th, 2015, 09:44 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 28th, 2015, 01:36 pm
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Views: 2,636 best
Recently I've received a few emails, and some of them end this way
[...]
Best!
TS Eliot
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What does 'Best!' mean? Are they praising anyone or does it have a special meaning? One of this...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 28th, 2015, 07:02 am
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Views: 2,307 Re: find/found
Excellent answer. But in fact I made up the thing (those sentences, etc.) myself, so please do not worry, (just in case you might think I was finding fault with others, which I never do; but I do...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 26th, 2015, 01:11 pm
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Views: 2,198 originally
-If he's talking about stuff from a source, but the theory :cool:is:cool: originally:cool: proposed by somebody else, does he cite the author or the one who proposed the theory?
Is it correct to use...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 26th, 2015, 01:05 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 26th, 2015, 11:30 am
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Views: 2,672 Re: since then
I'm happy to hear that one of my grammatical doubt has disappeared. But I got the idea of some posts on this forum; from somewhere I don't remember, someone has writen
-He has since died.
-He has...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 25th, 2015, 01:17 pm
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Views: 2,520 on
-You will write paragraphs on any key terms/issues raised in the previous week's lecture. This would mean you will hand in your second assignment on the week after the Singaporean New Year, on a...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 25th, 2015, 01:07 pm
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Views: 2,666 inform
-I'm writing to:) inform:) that this course has been changed to Term One. I was not aware of the teaching practice of the Education programme and accidentally arranged the course :)in :)term 2.
Are...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 24th, 2015, 01:20 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,127 Re: suggest and shall
Is my sentence correct?
-Just now Prof. Einstein suggested that we'd better postpone the lecture next Monday to a week later so that you can have more time to prepare for the mid-term exam and relax...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 24th, 2015, 12:22 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 24th, 2015, 12:19 pm
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Views: 2,672 Re: since then
Excellent answer. Thank you.
But since I was a student decades ago, I have been looking, probably in vain, for rules about this 'since' usage. I know that we could say
-He has died since 2005.
But...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 24th, 2015, 12:14 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 21st, 2015, 12:51 pm
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Views: 2,322 save me from
-Spread the word, save your teacher from (is from optional?)emails.
In dictionaries I don't find example sentences using from; but is my sentence wrong?
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 21st, 2015, 12:41 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 20th, 2015, 02:02 pm
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Views: 2,672 since then
-The Facebook account has been created (Is the tense here wrong?) since 2005 to enhance communication with the community of German majors.
1. Do you think it is correct?
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 19th, 2015, 01:47 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,307 about/for
-About question four, are we allowed to include gendered body language in our essay?
(said after reading the instructions for an essay assignment)
Is it correct to use about in this case? It does...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 19th, 2015, 01:33 pm
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Views: 2,307 find/found
-Hello, I find (here I think found or have found should be used) a somewhat detailed 'XYZ format' guideline.(followed by a PDF)
1. Do you think find is wrong?
2. Do you think guideline is wrong and...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 19th, 2015, 01:27 pm
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Views: 2,434 thanks for doing
-Thanks, Peter, for drawing my attention to the problem.
The teacher is announcing something to the student, obviously not addressing Peter, so do you think the two commas are wrong and should be...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 17th, 2015, 03:15 am
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