Well, "too many cooks do spoil the broth", but "the broth does not spoil too many cooks".
Whereas "too many cars..." is a subject and one problem; turn it around:
"The problem is (that there are) too many cars."
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- Tue Jan 21, 2003 3:31 pm
- Forum: Elementary Education
- Topic: is or are
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14034
- Tue Jan 21, 2003 3:27 pm
- Forum: Bilingual Education
- Topic: How to use a bilingual dictionary...?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 33034
Good to know that COLLINS is still on the market, and apparently, producing outstanding dictionaries! Come to think of it - I lived in Lyon, France, too, and my then French wife and I owned a COLLINS bilingual English/French dictionary. I don't know where I can purchase any of these dictionaries in ...
- Sat Jan 18, 2003 2:31 pm
- Forum: Secondary School Education
- Topic: adjusting grades?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13932
You know that we expats are the last ones to be formally told. All we know is usually gathered from anecdotes. Here are a few from my pile of experiences over several years in China: In my first school - a college - I taught English literature and English writing. At the end of the first semester, a...
- Sat Jan 18, 2003 2:12 pm
- Forum: Bilingual Education
- Topic: How to use a bilingual dictionary...?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 33034
Use of dictionary
Hello, I am missing one relevant tidbit of info - the English level of your students. Having said this, I gather they must be of sufficiently high level (being students under an expat, that is, native English teqacher), so they can safely be expected to use a MONOLINGUAL dictionary. The most widely ...