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- Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:59 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Use of "wish"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11059
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:08 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: How to use " 's " as the contraction for " is
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12272
- Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:47 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Verbs that are both action and state in p perfect continuous
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18298
Most state verbs can be used in the continuous: 'I'm thinking about it.' 'I'm loving it.' The continuous aspect emphasizes the fact that something is happening in a particular period of time and thus will have a beginning and an end. 'I'm hating this movie ' is putting emphasize on your feelings at ...
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:28 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Beginning sentence with "for"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 45507
To discover relative popularity in BrE and AmE you simply compare the Corpus of Contemporary American English with the British National Corpus. Do bear in mind that both cover different time periods, and that the registers used may differ in proportion, so for very recent phrases you may have to be ...
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:21 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: what's "it" in "it's raining"?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 52082
English is a language, unlike Spanish, where you can't miss out the subject. The technical term for whether you can miss out the subject is the 'null subject parameter'. The problem comes when there isn't a semantic subject. Nobody's doing the raining; so you use a dummy subject. The 'it' refers to ...
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:41 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: Difference between "can" and &qu
- Replies: 11
- Views: 43596
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:07 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: “on / in / during” exams he just regurgitates everything
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23974
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:00 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Beginning sentence with "for"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 45507
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:58 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: Difference between "can" and &qu
- Replies: 11
- Views: 43596
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:55 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Is use of the future continuous incorrect here ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 95855
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:36 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: using "can" or "could"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 71022
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:41 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Comparatives and superlatives
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18604
- Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:31 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: fanboys
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11244
- Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:57 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Was Berlitz the first school to use total immersion?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 35152
- Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:34 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: definite article - go to mosque / go to church
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14827