That's much more complicated.
Try getting a handle on the meanings of the bare "school" in this:
A: Where is Sue?
B: She is in school today. She was ill yesterday, but today she is OK…
Czemu w tym trzecim zdaniu jest też czas past Simple skoro jest to identyczne zdanie jak dwa pierwsze, a w nich może być tylko past Perfect? Tego już zupełnie nie rozumiem..
Those sentences are n…
"Proszę o sprawdzenie pod względem językowym, dziękuje:-)"
What you wrote stinks. Start from the beginning, and revise, revise, revise…
Just to get you started:
STEM is a methodical appro…
Steps are meant to be easy.
Steps are easy because they are easy to take and imply a goal easy to reach.
Books are easy to read, rather than simple to read; teachers are easy-going rather than simple…
Ja lubię (this is the) best thing since sliced bread :D
Should it be "...the best thing since sliced bread" or "...best thing since sliced bread"? Which of the two do you like bes…
Myślę, że jest tak jak w tekście piosenki pod oficjalnym filmikiem (w opisie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgwAAwj9zs
czyli "oh and I" tylko ona tak jakby nosowo to śpiewała i przeciąga…
Which of the two contradictory statements have you just answered in the affirmative?
1.The progressive is a stativizer.
2.It makes the nature of a stative verb dynamic when a stative is used in the …
The continuous tense form, in addition to other functions it serves, is a stativizer: it takes a verb (any verb) and makes a state out of it. (...)
But the power of the progressive is enough to cha…
(1)The story happened to me one really hot summer about five years ago. (2) It's probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me while driving a car. (See note 1). (3) I had bought/boug…
@Jansky
Or am I terribly wrong?
No, you are not terribly wrong. You are just a little bit wrong when you write (typing is writing, isn’t it?) that that’s how you would say it (again?) should you be g…
In Argentina they often use mango but I also heard mosca and cobre . They use American slang words for money/ currency, like bucks, moolah, dough, dead presidents and probably a few others.
I always …
"I told you it would be be a beautiful day when Tom came back"
Tom's coming back was meant to overlap (or be simultaneous with) its being a beautiful day.
Cf: It will be a beautiful …
It was fine until Mr. Perfectski turned up ;-)
It wasn't fine. Dig it, drill it, and kill it:
I have an umbrella with me in case of rain.
I have an umbrella with me in case it rains.
I have an …
...Ostatnio wpadlo mi:
1. This is not my first rodeo - staram sie tego uzywac, bo to mowi wszystko.
2. I've been round the block a few times.
Those “sayings” do not mean everything. They mean …
A redundant “of“ in all kinds of locutions popular among the baseball crowd some forty (or more) years ago surfaced on TV broadcasts and started the plague:
....it won’t be that long of a speech, tha…
“You told me you would drive me to the concert” or “You told me you will drive me to the concert”?
“I just said I was a writer” or “I just said I am a writer”?
Yesterday I took a cab back to the hote…
I would like to gain practical experience as an intern at your company
You don’t really want to be an experienced apprentice at XYZ or elsewhere, do you?
Get rid of “as an intern”; they’ll know what…
It was really more of a comment than a question. Read: …a comment rather than a question.
Jet travel has made moving from place to place less of an ordeal. Read: …easier.
Getting tickets for Tuesday …
Here is what I mean:
Jesli chce zapytac jak duzo ziemniakow zjesz a one sa mashed to co mam zrobic? How much or how many? How will the language respond to that trap?
Opening the crisper in the fridge…
The essence of the issue is how the language would react with much or many to the mash with plural verb.
What do you mean?
too much car or too much of a car for Grandma?
“…too much of a car” is a …
(Being friends is) more than just a (whole) lot.
Keep it simple. Less is more. No men’s locker-room parlance. No bad asses. And no big things either.
Two mash(ed) potatoes is a lot of mash(ed) pot…
No such doctors in the States :)
"Pigs can fly" is a licit generic sentence.
A doctor/doctors must like people is a very general statement…
That’s what generic statements are all about.
I…
I'm wondering about "the readers". It seems to me that it might work too (meaning that we're talking about a specific group of readers - those who will read the sentence). Please…
I am looking for a new family doctor The doctor must like children, otherwise it won't work.
Czyli musisz miec zdanie wprowadzajace.
That doesn’t work either. Here “the doctor” refers to an i…
Pytanie czy w pierwszym zdaniu The doctor też byłoby ok?
If it is a stand-alone sentence, I say no.
For a sentence to be interpreted as generic, the mandatory reference set to be characterized over…