Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums

[luciaC]

1. How do we call people from Philipine? Filipino for male and Filipina for female?

2. What does you are a salmon in a stream mean?

3. What does behind the lines story mean?

4. What does he was stoned mean?

5. Which is correct? She should have said how much do you need or

she should have said how much you need. If they are both correct, what's the difference?

6. Which is correct?
I regret that I have done this and I want to take this opportunity to apologize it or I regret that i did this and i want to take this opportunity to apoligize it.
If they are both correct, what's the difference?

7. What does eat dirt mean? Does it mean eat *beep*?

8.Price is little bit expensive. Is it grammatically correct?
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Mimi

[bud]

1. Yes.

2. I've never heard it. It might mean that you have a lot of problems to solve in reaching your objective (like a salmon swimming upstream in order to spawn).

3. I'm not sure. It might be a story about an army's base camp during a war. It might be a story about what goes on "behind the camera," like a story about the filming of a particular movie. It might be something else.

4. Usually it means he was using drugs. Sometimes it means he was drunk on alcohol.

5.The second version is correct.

6. You need to say "... apologize for it." Otherwise, they are equivalent; you are just using two different verb tenses to say the same thing. In practical terms, there is no difference in meaning in spite of the different tenses.

7. In most cases it is just a little tamer way to say the same thing. (It's possible that the context could change the meaning entirely.)

8. Almost... you need the definite article: "... The price is..."