Sorry guy , I completely forgot to reply to your point about dictionaries .... how rude of me ! Anyway , my view is that dictionaries are always out-of-date , it's in their very nature. Language is not static construct , it is fluid , and it constantly evolves. There are words that may not be in the book on your shelf , but will certainly be included in the latest editions ... eg Skype , Text , Spam , as nouns , but also as verbs . It's worth bearing in mind that in Elizabethan times , there was no such thing as exact or "correct" spelling. If a word conveyed accurate , unambiguous meaning to the " average " reader , it mattered not how it was spelled .
Interesting point there , if you are referring to the well-trusted sources that you mentioned in an earlier post . But here is just one example of why that is incorrect :- https://www.urbandictionary.com/
Urban dictionary is not a British English or even a recognised dictionary... it's a BS dictionary for fun Why do you keep referring to it? Anyway, enough, I'm out /
Those sentences don't belong to my homework.Those sentences belong to an article online. Could you show more tips to reduce the difficultly?
Here is my only tip, the majority of the first examples in each sentence are wrong, the second examples are correct What're the different meanings of "I got this computer from bargain" and "I got this computer on sale"? I got this computer from bargain -I got this computer at a bargain price (Means the price of the computer was low, and a great price) Probably a better way to say the correct example would be: I got this computer while it was on sale (Means the computer was at a reduced price compared to the normal price) You can use both examples for the same thing: I got this computer while it was on sale, it was at a bargain price. or I got a great bargain on this computer, it was on sale
The sentences "He has been to China" and "It's a dog".Change the sentences into general questions : "Has he been to China?" and "Is it a dog"? The wrong sentence is "Does he have been(Has looks like a verb)".My understanding(s) : We didn't change "is""am""are" into "do(es) be" or others;and their functions(or others) are different. So we didn't change "has been" into "does have been" Did I find the official way? Which(What) type(or others) of verb do "be""am""are""is" belong to?
I think you just have to sit down and work on it, m8. Clear your mind of these useless and rather hollow questions and just sit down and study, get it on board and improve your English...
Well even if you can read\write\speak fluent English...some of the politicians can still confuse you:- Donald Rumsfeld "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones"
Be动词 Auxiliary verb-"助动词" Modal verb-"情态动词" and others(“动词”-"verb"). I cannot find the translation of "be". The word "be" doesn't seem translated into Chinese by anyone. How to translate the word "be" into Chinese? Is "be" the special verb that belongs to English?How do native speaker think about it?
There's no "be" in English. There's "to be" = "to exist" and "bee" = "an insect that produces honey". Trying to do a crude translation from one language to another will get you nowhere. What you are trying to accomplish is pure madness, but if you have fun...then don't let me stop you.
Well it was a quote from a US politician for Americans as he probably thought English speakers in the rest of the world were too dumb to understand it