Forum: English Questions 
Nov 16th, 2018, 12:18 pm
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Views: 2,851  Re: Explain this sentence
Interesting - this appears to be spoken English (eg the punctuation is inappropriate for written English) and so as if the listener could interrupt to ask the speaker to clarify ambiguities, which do...
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Forum: General Chat
Oct 25th, 2018, 10:36 am
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Views: 3,308 Re: Question
Hi Brad,
1. Depends how much you both want or need to use the laptop. The only problem that I can think of is that if you were both teaching at the same time off the school premises and the school...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 5th, 2018, 09:14 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
People often use like + Ving and like to+ infinitive interchangeably to express enjoyment. I think like to + inf is slightly more usual in US English.
However, like to +inf can also be used to...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 20th, 2018, 09:20 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
As always, it's a matter of context. If the concept of "going" somewhere was irrelevant in the situation, then yes - possibly. For example : two friends A and B are at the lake. A has just been for a...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 19th, 2018, 04:25 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
It might have been better to start a new thread for this one as you've changed topic slightly and this is getting rather long. However :
1. Do the shopping : means for food, household stuff etc. Eg...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 17th, 2018, 03:03 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
No - the same. 3 sounds a bit more informal to me and more likely in US than UK English (??) But I'd say all of them.
Sue
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 13th, 2018, 08:30 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
Let's swim - possible, but even more likely, Let's have a swim.
But for the others, it depends on what you mean by "in the water". If you're already up to your waist in water (for instance if you're...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 12th, 2018, 09:13 am
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 11th, 2018, 02:16 am
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Views: 5,037 Re: Each vs Every
You can't really say that they are/aren't "correct" - just more or less likely. The difference between them is really one of speaker perception - does the speaker perceive the situation as being one...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 9th, 2018, 05:20 am
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 7th, 2018, 09:26 am
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 31st, 2018, 09:53 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
More or less the same - but with the caveats I made about context and relative frequency in my last posts. Whether the sentence starts Let's.. or I want to... or with any other introduction makes no...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 26th, 2018, 08:04 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
Yes - I want to go to shop would almost certainly not occur. I want to go shopping or I want to do the shopping instead.
Let's go to swim in the lake would probably mean the person was actually...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 25th, 2018, 07:34 am
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Views: 2,449 Re: THE OR THUH For Americans
First of all, you need to use phonemic script when talking about pronunciation. I imagine you are asking about the two possible pronunciations for "the" : 1) /ðiː/ - pronounced as in the word "thee"...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 25th, 2018, 07:05 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 20,146 Re: go swimming
First of all, as your title implies, "Let's" is irrelevant here. The question is about what constructions can follow the verb GO. The answer would be the same whether the sentences started Let's go.....
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 21st, 2018, 08:00 am
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Views: 3,822 Re: Music talent versus musical talent?
My immediate reaction was musical - I'd definitely use the adjective just as I would in talking about eg artistic talent. But you're quite right - examples of music talent abound on the net and art...
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Forum: English Questions
May 9th, 2018, 04:20 am
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Views: 3,300 Re: Hardly versus Barely
Hardly means "almost not" and is always negative in implication. So for example : I could hardly see anything = I could see almost nothing
Barely on the other hand means "only a bit" but is often...
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Forum: General Chat
Nov 20th, 2017, 06:41 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,924 Re: Has susan53 left the forums?
No, I'm still here - but there haven't been any language questions recently which is what I mainly concentrate on. But just as well as I'm swamped with work at the moment as all my students are...
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
Oct 7th, 2017, 04:21 am
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 15th, 2017, 09:01 am
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Views: 4,013 Re: Please help. Grammar questions.
Sorry - I didn't see the second set of questions when I answered before. These are easy - are you talking about a permanent fact :
Every time my friends and I go fishing, we catch a lot of fish.
or...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 15th, 2017, 01:41 am
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Views: 4,013 Re: Please help. Grammar questions.
Neither is very natural. You would say :
She still loves fishing even though she has never caught a fish.
a) "even though" introduces a fact, whereas "even if" introduces a hypothetical...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 15th, 2017, 05:24 am
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Views: 3,056 Re: punch
It means which will cause it to have more impact, greater force or effect. It's a metaphorical use of the word punch.
Here are some other examples which I found on the net :
His speech packed quite...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 6th, 2017, 12:15 am
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Views: 3,662 Re: Present Simple and Continuous with some words
Yes - try entering "nowadays" into a concordancer eg here (http://lextutor.ca/conc/eng/). You'll see the use of simple aspect is far more common. In fact I had to search Google to find good examples...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 3rd, 2017, 06:52 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 5th, 2017, 01:27 am
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