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For all English learners around the world.
❶) Thanks, God! ✓
❷) Thanks God! ✗
❸) Thank God for that! ✓
❹) Thanks God for that! ✗
❺) Thanks to Allah for saving me! ✓
❻) Thank to Allah for saving me!✗
📗What we are missing in ❷) is a punctuation mark after the interjection ‘thanks.’ We need to add a comma.
📔An interjection is a word (yes, hey, gosh) or short phrase (oh my, my goodness) that expresses some emotion and is not grammatically related to the sentence that follows. The interjection is followed by an exclamation point for strong emotions (Wow! I won the lottery!) and a comma for a weaker emotion (Wow, that is news to me.).
Well I am not so sure about that. ✗
Well, I am not so sure about that. ✓
No I did not take out the trash. ✗
No, I did not take out the trash. ✓
Aw that kitten is cute. ✗
Aw, that kitten is cute. ✓
📙Now, let's talk about ❹). It's incorrect because the expression that we use is ‘thank God/goodness/heavens,’ not ‘thankS God/heaven/goodness. It is used to show that you are very glad about something.
Thank God that’s over! I’ve never been so nervous in my life!
Only ten miles to go. Thank heavens for that!
📘The problem with ❻) is we say ‘thanks to somebody/something’ rather than ‘thank to somebody/something.
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Thanks heaps, friends! The correct answer is: 2) obtained
‘Get’ is not usually used in passive sentences.
Note: Do not confuse it with get-passives.
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Thank you, friends! ‘Are’ is the correct option.
Verbs like ‘seem’ take adjective phrases as complement, but not participial clauses. They can therefore substitute for ‘be’ in (2), but not in (1):
(1) They are entertaining the prime minister and her husband. ✓
They seem entertaining the prime minister and her husband. ✗
(2) The show was/seemed entertaining. ✓
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Thanks heaps, friends!
The correct one is: 2 does not
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/does-a-subject-in-parentheses-affect-your-verb-choice
Thankful/Grateful/Appreciative
📗These words all indicate warm feelings or expressions of gratitude. Grateful and thankful are close in meaning, but one distinction is commonly observed in that grateful is used to describe our feelings of gratitude to another person, and thankful refers to similar feelings towards divine providence, fate, or some less immediate agency. One is grateful for a gift or a kind word, but thankful for good health or fair weather.
📓Appreciative, more than the other two words, indicates a demonstration of the gratitude a person feels: a secretary who was so appreciative of the opportunity for advancement offered to her that she worked overtime even when not asked to do so.
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And this sentence from Oxford Practice Grammar proves the correctness of sentence 3.
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Thank you! The correct answer is: 2) - - -
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It is possible to use SOME in questions where the speaker has some expectation that the answer will be positive:
= Is some of the information useful? (I expect that part of it is.)
= Is any of the information useful? (I have no idea if it is useful or not.)
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🔍Spotlight🔍
📗The only two cases in which to might be used with here and there.
📕The to is generally impossible with here and there:
?She's travelling to here by car.
📓However, the above sentence might be acceptable if here, accompanied by a gesture, refers to a location on a map. For some native speakers, to can also occur after back:
📘She's coming back to here.
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Thank you, friends!
I asked some English friends and got a variety of answers.
The correct option is “by” to me. The only word that the English might use as an alternative is “with.” She had two children with her first husband and another with her current husband.
Using “from” suggests to me that they are her step-children. If I heard “from” in this sentence, I would ask for clarity on this point. So, use only BY, and if you mean step-children, it's definitely better to say it explicitly (write step-children) than to use a different preposition and hope the reader figures it out.
“From” does fit if you say “she has two children from her previous marriage.”
"From" indicates the previous situation, whereas "by" is specific about procreation. The difference is a bit moot since it rarely matters in a sentence like this whether the children were adopted or natural.
Normally, I would say that she has two children from her former husband or she had two children with her former husband, to indicate that they procreated together. Some people probably say by — it isn't wrong.
Here are some of the comments that the English wrote:
1) Different meanings. From means she married him and took on his kids. By means she had sex with him and produced two kids. (Australian English)
2) I've heard "by" as customary, but I don't like it. It has a sexist stink to it. I would prefer "with".
3) You may have heard 'from' used in the context of - his wife has two children from a previous marriage, or something similar.
4) From sounds like receiving a intangible object without intention and (by) means you did it together.
5) By -- American usage from Ohio via New York. "From" implies that the children are his but not hers.
6) Definitely "with" in Australia. May indicate that we (or my generation) expects mutual parenting?
7) A. AmE.
If she had two children FROM him, they'd have been a gift she had no part in creating — stepchildren, kidnap victims? 😳
8) With would be my preference for UK English, although 'by' her previous husband is becoming more common.
We would never say from to the best of my knowledge.
9) I'd agree that with is best, but given the options in the original post, it's 'by'. 'From' should be used in relation to a previous marriage.
This is why most people liked" with":
Well, I would say "by," but to me personally, I sort of avoid it because "by" is associated with action - a book by an author, a lecture by a professor - so that "by her previous husband" makes me think quite directly of what he did as his part in bringing those children into existence. But that's just my dirty mind. "By" is "correct." You could also say "from her previous marriage." PS. I am American but British university educated.
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Thank you, friends! Let me say “2) whose name's Ali” is the correct option. In this context, we need a defining relative clause to define which of the four friends the speaker is talking about.
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Vocabulary Course (Week 1, Day 1)
The youngster who reads VORACIOUSLY, though INDISCRIMINATELY, does not necessarily gain in wisdom over the teenager who is more selective in his reading choices. A young man who has read the life story of every EMINENT athlete of the twentieth century, or a coed who has STEEPED herself in every social-protest novel she can get her hands on, may very well be learning all there is to know in a very limited area. But books are REPLETE with so many wonders that it is often discouraging to see bright young people limit their own experiences.
Fill.
1) The football game was ______ with excitement and great plays.
2) The ______ author received the Nobel Prize for literature.
3) My cousin is so _______ in schoolwork that his friends call him a bookworm.
4) After skiing, I find that I have a ____ appetite.
5) Modern warfare often results in the ______ killing of combatants and innocent civilians alike.
Match.
6) voracious ________ a) of high reputation, outstanding
7) indiscriminate ________ b) completely ftlled or supplied with
8) eminent ________ c) choosing at random without careful selection
9. steeped ________ d) desiring or consuming great quantities
10) replete ________ e) soaked, drenched, saturated
Note: Write me your answers.
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All the options are correct, friends. The British normally say ‘it is pouring with rain.’ But, in American English, ‘it is pouring rain’ is also correct. The British drop ‘with’ depending on the sentence, so they would say ‘I'm not going out in the pouring rain.’
In American English ‘pouring rain’ is OK as a noun.
As a verb we say ‘it's pouring’ and sometimes but seldom add ‘rain’ on the end ‘it's pouring rain.’
They also say ‘it's pouring DOWN rain’ or ‘it's pouring down.’
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Thank you! The correct answer is: 1) Correct
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They ____ entertaining the prime minister and his wife Seema. 😋
❶) seem
❷) are
❸) Both
The Sherman Act (and the Federal Trade Commission Act) __________ apply to state agencies.
❶) do not
❷) does not
❸) Both
💎Chew vs Masticate💎
📗Chew and masticate are synonymous in designating a crushing or grinding with the teeth. The difference between the two words is that masticate, in addition to being more formal than chew, is said only in reference to food that is swallowed after the crushing or grinding action. One speaks, for example, of chewing gum but never of masticating it.
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Thanks all! Let me say all are correct. The following attachment is to prove the correctness of sentences 1 & 2.
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We use it for a person when we are identifying him or her.
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👁Expectation and reality👁
📓We use a past tense to refer to a belief that has just been shown to be true or false.
📘It's not as big as I expected. (NOT ... as I have expected.)
📙You're older than I thought. (NOT... than I have thought.)
📗But you promised ...! (NOT But you have promised....)
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In Company with vs in the Company of
📗Care must be taken not to confuse the two idioms ‘in company with’, and ‘in the company of’. ‘In company with’ means ‘accompanied by’, or ‘together with’, and can be used of non animate things, as well as of human beings.
Plague, in company with famine, killed almost half the population.
📘‘In the company of’ means ‘in the presence of’, or ‘having whoever is mentioned as company’. It is normally used only of human beings, though it may sometimes be applied to animals.
She was shy in the company of strangers.
Rover could be very quarrelsome when in the company of other dogs.
📓Keep company with: frequent the company of.
Never keep company with dishonest persons.
📗For company: in order to provide company.
As the journey was a long one, he took a friend with him for company.
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Both are correct. If I wrote “any books” instead of “any notes,” then ONLY ‘by’ would work.
Since ‘a note’ can mean either a letter or a piece of information, you can use either ‘by’ or ‘from’ depending on the context.
“From” here is emphasizing on RECEIVING the letter/note rather than WRITING it.
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I have four close friends. Of them, my friend _______ is the most cooperative and passionate.
❶) , whose name's Ali,
❷) whose name's Ali
❸) , that is called Ali,
❹) , who is called Ali,
✳️Improve = make or become better
✳️Improvise = perform without preparation
The band *improved* its live shows by learning to *improvise*.
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Thank you! The only correct option is: 2) was
The were-subjunctive cannot replace the hypothetical past in constructions introduced by ‘it's (high/quite/about) time (that).’
1) It's high time I was in bed.✓
2) It's high time I were in bed.✗
Note: The expressions ‘it's quite time,’ ‘it's high time,‘ ‘it's about time,’ and ‘it's time’ are all the same. The adjectives ‘high’ and ‘quite’ are used to make the feeling stronger.
After ‘it's time,’ we do not normally use the present tense.
You'll find only one or two examples using the present tense if you google the phrase, and they say that the present tense after ‘it's time’ expresses a weak not-yet-factual interpretation, whereas the past tense expresses a strong one. The good thing is that it's been considered incorrect in enough grammars, otherwise you would see people fighting over it being informal.
SOMETIMES even the main verb is put in the preterite subjunctive:
It WERE high time I was in bed. (Rare)
Do not make a quiz out of this sentence, anyway. 😄
I have also seen the were-subjunctive after ‘it's high time’ in a British newspaper, but that's incorrect or of questionable grammaticality —it's considered incorrect in grammar books.
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