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According to my book, we use the simple present for schedules (buses, movies, classes, etc.) For example, "The plane arrives in New York at 7:30 tomorrow morning." Then here's my question. "I want to meet Sarah at the staion. What time _________?" a. does her train arrive b. is her train arriving Ac...

We say, "I go to school" without "the" because "school" means "studying or learning" here. Let's say, I am a mom and I need to go to school not to study but to meet my child's teacher. Do I still say, "I need to go to school?" without "the"? With the same token, we say , " I go to church". "Church" ...

We say, "Would you like a sandwich?". It seems like a countable noun to me. So do we also say that "Would you like sandwiches?"

I really have a problem with this topic. "coffee" is an uncountable noun. But we can say "a coffee" and "3 coffees" because it denotes a serving. Also "cake" can be countable and uncountable according my book. For example, a cake OR a piece of cake. So then, is it "three different kinds of cake" or ...

According to my grammar book, "candy" is considered as an uncountable noun.
"two pieces of candy" is correct rather than "two pieces of candies". But don't we say "I want two candies."?

We say "go for a walk, go for a run, go walking, and go running."
Do we also say "go for a ski, go for a fish, go for a sail, go for a shop" instead of "go skiing, go fishing, go sailing, go shopping"?

When I write a journal or an essay, not a research paper, and I like to quote somebody's words, do I still need references at the back of the page?