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WHY CAN WE SAY:
I,M PHONING TO SPEAK TO YOU...AND NOT
I AM PHONING FOR SPEAKING TO YOU ?

BOTH ARE TELLING US THE PURPOSE OF THE SPEAKING SO WHY CANNOT TH SECOND ONE BE USED? THANKS

HOW CAN ONE EXPLAIN THEFOLLWING:
HE WANTED THIS TIME FOR THINKING........
HE WANTED THIS TIME TO THINK...
I AM GOING OUT TO EAT....
WHY NOT........ I AM GOING OUT FOR EATING?

I AM HERE TO SPEAK TO YOU...
WHY NOT......... I AM HERE FOR SPEAKING TO YOU?

How does one explain the difference between the use of " as for" and " as far as I'm concerned?

is "as for " always in a negative situation? "AS FOR YOU, YOU CAN GO AWAY!" " AS FOR YOU , YOU CAN BE QUIET!"

I HAVE TO GO NOW..............
WHY IS THE QUESTION; DO YOU HAVE TO GO NOW?
WHY IS THE HAVE CHANGRD INTO A DO?

I HAD A ROW WITH THE BOSS.
WHY NOT HAD YOU?

THE FLAT WAS DESCRIBED AS WARM AND COSY. IT WAS MORE LIKE A PRISON CELL.

WHY DO WE NOT SAY IT WAS DESCRIBED LIKE OR IT WAS MORE AS A PRISON CELL?

Can anyone advise me as to the best way to explain the uses and differences of AS and LIKE?

I would like to know why we use the following construction:
"seldom had I ever seen such fear"> Why is the sequence adverb, verb, pronoun...is there some kind of rule? We cannot do this with "always"so does this only apply to certain adverbs of time? Why not simply say " I had seldom seen such fear">

the students are 15/16years old.....pre-inter./ intermediate

The students are 15/16 years old.............pre-intermediate/intermediate

I m fairly new to group teaching and have so far only dealt with one to ones. I have a group of 8 Italian tenagers to teach for 5 days, 3hours per day. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could begin this class on the first day? Initially, of course introduction etc: but what then?

Becoming Europeans is a bit like marrying into a family....why are the words becoming and marrying ING words...what part of speech are they?