Forum: Grammar
November 15, 2015, 02:11 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 15, 2015, 02:09 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 14, 2015, 10:56 AM
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As
p.177 I am deeply flattered - and no less deeply alarmed - that you remember it so - for I spoke - or affected to speak - idly on the matter, as about something which might be pleasant to Toy with...
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Forum: Grammar
November 14, 2015, 09:29 AM
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Other of with a/an/the
p.173 I have read other of your poems of Insect Life, and marvelled at the way they combined the brilliance and fragility of those winged things [...]
Is an- or the optional before other?
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Forum: Grammar
November 14, 2015, 07:27 AM
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As audience
Students may come to the presentation and show their support for friends. If a teacher asks why a student's name is not on the list of those who have to present in this session, could the student...
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Forum: Grammar
November 14, 2015, 12:30 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 14, 2015, 12:29 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 13, 2015, 03:13 AM
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Ability/-ties
Do you agree with my explanation?
-We have to be able to assess one's ability correctly. (=ability in general)
-We have to be able to assess one's abilities correctly. (=different abilities...
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Forum: Grammar
November 13, 2015, 02:34 AM
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Talking about the usage of treatment, do you...
Talking about the usage of treatment, do you think of is correct but ambiguous, and for or from should be used instead to make the thing clear?
-The harsh treatment of the parents is made known.
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Forum: Grammar
November 13, 2015, 02:32 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:44 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:43 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:42 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:42 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:41 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:39 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:39 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:38 AM
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Excellent answer. Thank you.
But how...
Excellent answer. Thank you.
But how about if treatment is talking about how the employer, etc. treats you? He favours men, but despises women. Are both treatment and treaments correct?
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Forum: Grammar
November 12, 2015, 05:36 AM
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Forum: Grammar
November 11, 2015, 03:40 AM
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Scope
This is a question about the usage of words. Could I use scope? (but not other nouns)
-No students have asked the __ of this examination.
The OALD says scope is the range of things that a...
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Forum: Grammar
November 11, 2015, 03:33 AM
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To do sth/into
Is this correct?
-This thing had provoked him to (not into here) rethink his life.
If not, and if you think into doing sth should be used with provoke, then why can we say?:
-The...
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Forum: Grammar
November 11, 2015, 03:23 AM
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Nerve/a nerve
Are they correct?
-The villain says, 'He wasted my time by answering my question, and you expect me to return discourtesy with politeness. What nerve.'
1. Are the red words idiomatic...
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Forum: Grammar
November 11, 2015, 02:25 AM
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Treatment
Are they both correct? I have this doubt, because I think in this case treatments should be wrong, but using the singular does not sound better:
-The treatments they receive are different.
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Forum: Grammar
November 11, 2015, 02:15 AM
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Come to it
(Page no. lost)
-Ash’s evocation of the Black Forest in ‘Gotteschalk’ is very fine, but how many of the public are prepared to endure his theological strictures to come to it?
This come to is...
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Forum: Grammar
November 11, 2015, 01:48 AM
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Live up to with a dead subject
My sentences as usual:
-There are not enough jobs for PhD holders in universities, but at the same time those who have a PhD would not consider taking jobs that do not live up to their...
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