A question from another forum:
Just like any other marriage, one key to keeping the relationships vibrant are regular date nights.
According to standard English shouldn't the agreement call 'is' instead of 'are'?
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- Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:55 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: is or are?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4179
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:05 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: A balance between prosody and segmental feature?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14823
Many studies showed the important place of prosody in language communication for the reason that misunderstanding would occur when speakers are lack of suprasegmental knowledge. However, most of language teaching focuses on segmental features first, especially the instruction for beginners, and the...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:09 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Do you like [playing]/[to play] football?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6433
Do you like [playing]/[to play] football?
I know we've been on this time and time again in this forum, but recently I've come across a seemingly tendency* to use -ing forms rather than to+verb in verb+verb constructions with like , for example: (1) Do you like swimming? Is it just author's stylistic choice or has something changed and I'm n...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:03 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: pronunciation of "legacy"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 26378
I'll assume short e to sound like the vowel in t e n and long e like the vowel sound in t ee n . You should check if the change short e to long e and/or short e to short i is systematical in your speech and/or speech community. It seems something that goes on in your speech community as I can tell. ...
- Tue May 17, 2011 12:16 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: of course vs certainly
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6493
As far as I use English, if I was to say such a sentence I'd say: He overlooked himself and surely he felt ill. But I fail to see any reason to reject certainly and go for of course , indeed I have to confess that if a student gave me these two sentences I'd tell them to pick certainly . The diction...
- Mon May 16, 2011 11:47 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: of course vs certainly
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6493
of course vs certainly
Do you agree with the statements below?
Wrong sentence: He overworked himself and certainly he fell ill.
Right sentence: He overworked himself and of course he fell ill.
http://wasiarman-learnenglish.blogspot. ... ourse.html
Thanks
José
Wrong sentence: He overworked himself and certainly he fell ill.
Right sentence: He overworked himself and of course he fell ill.
http://wasiarman-learnenglish.blogspot. ... ourse.html
Thanks
José
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:40 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: He must be rich, ....... he?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 29319
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:23 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: He must be rich, ....... he?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 29319
He must be rich, ....... he?
Taken from another forum. What is the tag for the given sentence?
He must be rich, __________ he?
Is it can't? Any other (formal) alternative?
Thanks
José
He must be rich, __________ he?
Is it can't? Any other (formal) alternative?
Thanks
José
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:59 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: usage of the word "caliber"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8938
Non native speaker opinion/thoughts. About the hyphen: there is no set of rules related to the use of hyphen in compund words, this is very different from my native tongue where you gives you a list with rules and rules regarding hyphenisation. I don't remember where, but I do remember reading somet...
- Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:11 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: You could have come I would be your teacher
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11423
If you had given a different example, perhaps I wouldn't be confused now. 8) 8) Hmm on rereading several times, if we both knew that your chance to come to Sydney was this semester, then perhaps it would work. The context given was just that the person who posted the original sentence was talking t...
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:22 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: You could have come I would be your teacher
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11423
I remember I saw some examples of these "mixted"* conditionals but nothing very deep, so one can wonder to what extend they are accepted by native speakers, and being the previous condition true, what would be the underlining meaning of each case. Thank you :D :D :D * I like the quotations and they ...
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:07 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: You could have come I would be your teacher
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11423
You could have come I would be your teacher
This is from another forum, someone wanted to check the sentence below -- arguably said by a native speaker: I used to teach English as a second Language. You could have come to Sydney and I would be your teacher. I know the canonical would go and I could have been your teacher . My question, in the...
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:19 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: "What/which" person would you ch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11892
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:43 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: "What/which" person would you ch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11892
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:12 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: teaching PRO-DROP
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11632
I am one of the few teachers I know that subscribe to Chomskian's theories. Although I do reckon it is more of a background than explicit use in classroom as Chomsky himself puts it (something like this)"I don't see how this theory can work in second-language acquisition". Anyway, as my native langu...