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| Any Chinese citizens in this group? | 01 Mar 2006 20:17 GMT | 81 |
I've joined this group for days, but no single Chinese
appears in my sight; at least no one has claimed his
nationalty as Chinese.
I'm just wondering if there's any Chinese people
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| Shoulda Woulda Coulda | 01 Mar 2006 20:16 GMT | 8 |
It seems like that 'shoulda' means 'should have', but what exactly
"Shoulda Woulda Coulda" mean?
I heard this phrase from a dialog in Impossible Creatures (A Microsoft
game).
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| proper usage of the word 'customary'? | 01 Mar 2006 19:28 GMT | 3 |
A little insight from the group would be helpful here. A co-worker of
mine included the phrase 'the gentelman had on his customary
headphones' in a report. This does not seem like proper usage of the
word to me, but am not versed enough to support my argument.
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| English tenses improvement | 01 Mar 2006 15:36 GMT | 3 |
i am not very good at english, spoken english, can u suggest any good
site on the inetnet where i can find good info about english tenses ?
something like a beginner's guide.
Reply will be greatly appreciated :-)
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| Has anyone ever been scathed? | 01 Mar 2006 15:03 GMT | 17 |
Today, in a report on a shooting, the wife and child were said to have
escaped "unscathed", but I wonder if anyone has ever been described as
having been "scathed"?
I guess this could be one of those examples of words only appearing in
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| Cooper wrong again | 01 Mar 2006 14:53 GMT | 45 |
T Cooper has recently asserted in effect that his name will
appear in nearly every posting to alt.usage.english.
I have in my archive 24,480 postings to alt.usage.english
during the period 1 January 2006 through now. The string
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| Sentence correction - need help | 01 Mar 2006 14:05 GMT | 11 |
I am just wondering if some one could help me in correct a couple of
lines that i email to my employer? What i wanted to tell my manager, is
just to find the out time sheets of myself(mine) and my peers who both
work at a client site.
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| A were-or-was question | 01 Mar 2006 02:47 GMT | 25 |
Experts, what do you say about the following:
In a study of 188 retailers, there was/were over 53.6 billion in losses.
Would you use "there were over" or "there was over"? Thanks.
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| First "liberty cabbage" and now ... | 01 Mar 2006 00:47 GMT | 47 |
Iran Renames Danish Pastries
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 16, 2:23 PM ET
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look
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| hi, I'm Fay | 01 Mar 2006 00:33 GMT | 6 |
hi, everyone:
I want to collect some information to my thesis,and to gain some
information about gender differences and college students' learning ,
esp.
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| live or living??? | 01 Mar 2006 00:00 GMT | 1 |
I would like to know the correct use of these sentences:
A good salary is essenzial to live in NY.
A good salary is essenzial to living in NY.
thanks
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