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Asked on March 23, 2022 in Grammar.
I want an umbrella when it rains. Why not just buy one?
When it will rain I’ll buy an umbrella. How do I know the time after that?
If it rains, will I buy an umbrella?
With the forecast that it will rain once this coming October, I’ll buy a weather monitor.
How do I find an umbrella and keep it dry when rains?
I’m planning on buying an umbrella a couple days later but
it’s raining. How many times will it rain?
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Asked on January 5, 2022 in Grammar.
I want an umbrella when it rains. Why not just buy one?
When it will rain I’ll buy an umbrella. How do I know the time after that?
If it rains, will I buy an umbrella?
With the forecast that it will rain once this coming October, I’ll buy a weather monitor.
How do I find an umbrella and keep it dry when rains?
I’m planning on buying an umbrella a couple days later but
it’s raining. How many times will it rain?
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Asked on December 26, 2021 in Grammar.
I want an umbrella when it rains. Why not just buy one?
When it will rain I’ll buy an umbrella. How do I know the time after that?
If it rains, will I buy an umbrella?
With the forecast that it will rain once this coming October, I’ll buy a weather monitor.
How do I find an umbrella and keep it dry when rains?
I’m planning on buying an umbrella a couple days later but
it’s raining. How many times will it rain?
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in Grammar.
I nee had no idea exactly what folder
I am in. Good.
She had no idea whose folder was is
also fine, since you’re just swapping “whose” as a determiner (also “who”) with “whose” as a pronoun. When Mary died she could’t
remember which house she lived in.
She could not remember which house Mary lived in (or even in which house Mary married).
When speaking English with the fluency of a second place there is a benefit of adding two places in a sentence and sometimes “which was the house” sounds better to enhance the feeling of confusion, by emphasizing which the second place in the sentence?
I’ve tried some questions from the CAE who actually try to answer them but I don’t know what to ask. I agree with everyone who has tried them, and they are quite difficult. I am asking people to use structures they wouldn’t naturally write (possibly because they are more common in UK English) However, I want to use them. If a question requires a verb for a long list of answers, an example of this could be one with more than one.
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Asked on November 23, 2021 in Grammar.
Can you tell me a number of possible English language mistakes you never realized? For example, the expression is “Daily to day” and not “Daily to day”.
What are great differences between English dialects? None of these are wrong, just different, and an expression that might be common in one dialect might be totally absent from another. If you are talking all from the one who’s talking about you then it depends.
All of your sentences are grammatically correct. Which is more common than any other.
I prefer dancing to swimming
from time to time in the summer and I don’t prefer swimming to dancing. and I live in the summer.
I would prefer to dance rather than swim.Some are more wordy, but perhaps the best way to express what you mean. I
prefer to dance tango. Rather than dancing mambo.
Why “would prefer” is no different from “prefer” in that you can use either the infinitive or the gerund:
I prefer dancing in the moonlight to doing my taxes.
Taxes: I’m happy dancing in the moonlight than doing taxes. I also like working on my phones.Besides getting taxes, I enjoy moonlight dancing rather than doing tax return.
I would prefer to be dancing in the moonlight rather than completing my taxes.If there is every other way of saying preference, it can be so easily used. And how can I express my own preference? I don’t use any particular expression when I can say that the expression is far more common or that one is often using a different one; I know, from listening to native speakers, how to use it.
In the case of “I prefer to dance rather than swim”, the word “to” is usually part of the infinitive “to dance” and “to swim” and not part of the expression “prefer to…” The word “?” is used equally; one to out of two.
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Asked on November 23, 2021 in Grammar.
Can you tell me a number of possible English language mistakes you never realized? For example, the expression is “Daily to day” and not “Daily to day”.
What are great differences between English dialects? None of these are wrong, just different, and an expression that might be common in one dialect might be totally absent from another. If you are talking all from the one who’s talking about you then it depends.
All of your sentences are grammatically correct. Which is more common than any other.
I prefer dancing to swimming
from time to time in the summer and I don’t prefer swimming to dancing. and I live in the summer.
I would prefer to dance rather than swim.Some are more wordy, but perhaps the best way to express what you mean. I
prefer to dance tango. Rather than dancing mambo.
Why “would prefer” is no different from “prefer” in that you can use either the infinitive or the gerund:
I prefer dancing in the moonlight to doing my taxes.
Taxes: I’m happy dancing in the moonlight than doing taxes. I also like working on my phones.Besides getting taxes, I enjoy moonlight dancing rather than doing tax return.
I would prefer to be dancing in the moonlight rather than completing my taxes.If there is every other way of saying preference, it can be so easily used. And how can I express my own preference? I don’t use any particular expression when I can say that the expression is far more common or that one is often using a different one; I know, from listening to native speakers, how to use it.
In the case of “I prefer to dance rather than swim”, the word “to” is usually part of the infinitive “to dance” and “to swim” and not part of the expression “prefer to…” The word “?” is used equally; one to out of two.
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Asked on November 22, 2021 in Grammar.
Can you tell me a number of possible English language mistakes you never realized? For example, the expression is “Daily to day” and not “Daily to day”.
What are great differences between English dialects? None of these are wrong, just different, and an expression that might be common in one dialect might be totally absent from another. If you are talking all from the one who’s talking about you then it depends.
All of your sentences are grammatically correct. Which is more common than any other.
I prefer dancing to swimming
from time to time in the summer and I don’t prefer swimming to dancing. and I live in the summer.
I would prefer to dance rather than swim.Some are more wordy, but perhaps the best way to express what you mean. I
prefer to dance tango. Rather than dancing mambo.
Why “would prefer” is no different from “prefer” in that you can use either the infinitive or the gerund:
I prefer dancing in the moonlight to doing my taxes.
Taxes: I’m happy dancing in the moonlight than doing taxes. I also like working on my phones.Besides getting taxes, I enjoy moonlight dancing rather than doing tax return.
I would prefer to be dancing in the moonlight rather than completing my taxes.If there is every other way of saying preference, it can be so easily used. And how can I express my own preference? I don’t use any particular expression when I can say that the expression is far more common or that one is often using a different one; I know, from listening to native speakers, how to use it.
In the case of “I prefer to dance rather than swim”, the word “to” is usually part of the infinitive “to dance” and “to swim” and not part of the expression “prefer to…” The word “?” is used equally; one to out of two.
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Asked on November 22, 2021 in Grammar.
Can you tell me a number of possible English language mistakes you never realized? For example, the expression is “Daily to day” and not “Daily to day”.
What are great differences between English dialects? None of these are wrong, just different, and an expression that might be common in one dialect might be totally absent from another. If you are talking all from the one who’s talking about you then it depends.
All of your sentences are grammatically correct. Which is more common than any other.
I prefer dancing to swimming
from time to time in the summer and I don’t prefer swimming to dancing. and I live in the summer.
I would prefer to dance rather than swim.Some are more wordy, but perhaps the best way to express what you mean. I
prefer to dance tango. Rather than dancing mambo.
Why “would prefer” is no different from “prefer” in that you can use either the infinitive or the gerund:
I prefer dancing in the moonlight to doing my taxes.
Taxes: I’m happy dancing in the moonlight than doing taxes. I also like working on my phones.Besides getting taxes, I enjoy moonlight dancing rather than doing tax return.
I would prefer to be dancing in the moonlight rather than completing my taxes.If there is every other way of saying preference, it can be so easily used. And how can I express my own preference? I don’t use any particular expression when I can say that the expression is far more common or that one is often using a different one; I know, from listening to native speakers, how to use it.
In the case of “I prefer to dance rather than swim”, the word “to” is usually part of the infinitive “to dance” and “to swim” and not part of the expression “prefer to…” The word “?” is used equally; one to out of two.
- 293004 views
- 22 answers
- 108031 votes
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Asked on November 21, 2021 in Grammar.
Can you tell me a number of possible English language mistakes you never realized? For example, the expression is “Daily to day” and not “Daily to day”.
What are great differences between English dialects? None of these are wrong, just different, and an expression that might be common in one dialect might be totally absent from another. If you are talking all from the one who’s talking about you then it depends.
All of your sentences are grammatically correct. Which is more common than any other.
I prefer dancing to swimming
from time to time in the summer and I don’t prefer swimming to dancing. and I live in the summer.
I would prefer to dance rather than swim.Some are more wordy, but perhaps the best way to express what you mean. I
prefer to dance tango. Rather than dancing mambo.
Why “would prefer” is no different from “prefer” in that you can use either the infinitive or the gerund:
I prefer dancing in the moonlight to doing my taxes.
Taxes: I’m happy dancing in the moonlight than doing taxes. I also like working on my phones.Besides getting taxes, I enjoy moonlight dancing rather than doing tax return.
I would prefer to be dancing in the moonlight rather than completing my taxes.If there is every other way of saying preference, it can be so easily used. And how can I express my own preference? I don’t use any particular expression when I can say that the expression is far more common or that one is often using a different one; I know, from listening to native speakers, how to use it.
In the case of “I prefer to dance rather than swim”, the word “to” is usually part of the infinitive “to dance” and “to swim” and not part of the expression “prefer to…” The word “?” is used equally; one to out of two.
- 293004 views
- 22 answers
- 108031 votes
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Asked on November 21, 2021 in Grammar.
Can you tell me a number of possible English language mistakes you never realized? For example, the expression is “Daily to day” and not “Daily to day”.
What are great differences between English dialects? None of these are wrong, just different, and an expression that might be common in one dialect might be totally absent from another. If you are talking all from the one who’s talking about you then it depends.
All of your sentences are grammatically correct. Which is more common than any other.
I prefer dancing to swimming
from time to time in the summer and I don’t prefer swimming to dancing. and I live in the summer.
I would prefer to dance rather than swim.Some are more wordy, but perhaps the best way to express what you mean. I
prefer to dance tango. Rather than dancing mambo.
Why “would prefer” is no different from “prefer” in that you can use either the infinitive or the gerund:
I prefer dancing in the moonlight to doing my taxes.
Taxes: I’m happy dancing in the moonlight than doing taxes. I also like working on my phones.Besides getting taxes, I enjoy moonlight dancing rather than doing tax return.
I would prefer to be dancing in the moonlight rather than completing my taxes.If there is every other way of saying preference, it can be so easily used. And how can I express my own preference? I don’t use any particular expression when I can say that the expression is far more common or that one is often using a different one; I know, from listening to native speakers, how to use it.
In the case of “I prefer to dance rather than swim”, the word “to” is usually part of the infinitive “to dance” and “to swim” and not part of the expression “prefer to…” The word “?” is used equally; one to out of two.
- 293004 views
- 22 answers
- 108031 votes