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I've lived in New York City most of my life, but I've been residing in Slovenia for the past four years. I have also lived in Los Angeles and Belgrade, Serbia, and I am a native-level speaker of Serbian and Croatian languages as well. I have the Cambridge certificate for teaching English as a foreign language (CELTA), and I teach for Berlitz and other schools as well as online via Skype. My background is in the Internet, audio, video, and music.
I have a funny birthday video greetings website and YouTube channel called The Joke Stroke. I also teach on Udemy, and I'd be happy to give any italki user a discount coupon to any of my courses.
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- It has to do with the duration of this action. You use "while" for either two long simultaneous actions or for the longer of two actions. In this case, preparing lunch is clearly a long action and it's obviously longer than cutting his finger. Something happened during another action, while the action was happening. Otherwise, he was preparing his lunch when he cut his finger.0 votedOctober 25, 20143
- Maybe this will help. There are many short stories and fairy tales here, lots of them translations of well known authors. http://www.pjesmicezadjecu.com/bajke-i-price-za-djecu And if you look under the Priče menu, you will find fables and other types of stories, by Croatian authors as well.0 votedOctober 24, 20142
- "Your English is getting better." This is happening as we speak, your English is in the process of getting better. It doesn't mean literally right now but this is an ongoing process. You could say "Your English gets better <when something happens>" like "every time you read a book or watch a movie in English."0 votedOctober 23, 20140
- Like Lanny said, it's probably either "who are you going with" or "who do you go with". The way you wrote it is not gramatically possible and these two are. But we can't give you a definite answer without any context. "Who are you going with" is typically a question for someone who has plans to go somewhere and the person asking wants to know if they are going alone or with someone. "I am going to the beach tomorrow." "Who are you going with?" The -ing form is most commonly used for actions that are taking place at the moment of speaking (I am typing right now, answering your question, sitting at my computer), but it can also be used for future actions that are planned, scheduled, agreed upon in advance such as meetings, dates, visits to a doctor etc. "Who do you go with" sounds like a question you would ask about a general thing, some action that happens on a regular basis. "I go shoe shopping every weekend." "Who do you go with?" It's like a habit or a common occurence.0 votedOctober 21, 20140
- The houses were randomly spread out on the prairie. Some of them looked as if somebody had moved them overnight. The others looked like they were aimlessly moving away, walking out into the distance, along these large areas of flat land. To stray means to wander, to move aimlessly. To stray off assumes there's some place that they would logically be, like a road or a village, so they are straying away from there. Plains are large areas of land without much vegetation on them. Not a desert because there is grass no sand but with few trees and typically flat, like a prairie. In the US this would typically be the Great Plains, the area between the Rockies and the Mississippi, all the way from Texas up to the Dakotas.0 votedOctober 19, 20141
- It doesn't say anything about any other links. It's simply the first link to that website from another website. Internal links are links from a site to pages on that same site. External links are incoming links from other domain names. Those links are very important to any webmaster and he/she is possibly paying special respects to the first one received.0 votedOctober 15, 20141
- There are many rules about commas, but four or five of those rules are considered basic. 1 - The listing comma: separate items in a list of three or more. "My favorite fruits are apples, oranges, and bananas." The last comma before "and" is optional, yet some say you should always use it. It's called the Oxford comma and it's probably safer to use it in formal writing. Otherwise, pick a style and stick to it. Sometimes it can be very useful in order to clarify any ambiguities, such as in "I made you sandwiches with chicken, turkey, and ham and cheese." 1b - The listing of coordinate adjectives also requires commas. When you have as little as two modifiers that are affecting the same thing, you need a comma to separate them. "This is a sweet, juicy apple." If you can replace a comma with "and", the rule works and you should use a comma instead. 2 - The joining comma: separate independent clauses in one sentence. "I am unusually tired tonight, so I think I'll go to bed now." When you have two complete clauses (thoughts that can stand on their own, usually with at least a subject and a verb), you can join them together with a comma AND one of the following connecting words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. The easy way to remember is with the acronym FANBOYS, as those are the first letters of these words. I used "but" in the first sentence and "yet" in the first rule. If the clauses are short you can skip it. 3 - The gapping comma: omit repetitive parts of a sentence. Instead of saying "The girls wanted to spend the afternoon shopping, and the boys wanted to spend the afternoon looking at cars" you could say "The girls wanted to spend the afternoon shopping, and the boys, looking at cars." (the final rule continued in comments)0 votedOctober 15, 20142
- The 's is added to a noun to show belonging. This is my house. This is his house. This is the doctor's house. This is Julie's house. When the noun ends with "s" we just add an apostrophe after the "s". Those are the babies' beds. And these are our dogs' beds. These two rules have nothing to do with singular or plural, only with the "s" at the end of the word. Are these the children's bicycles? When a person's name ends with an "s", then you can double up with 's. Miles's car is over there.0 votedOctober 14, 20141
- It is OK. You could drop "away", so just "from here" is fine. Also, there are different guides for writing numbers. I spell out all the numbers that are pronounced as one word (0-20, 30, 40...) up to a hundred or so. Some guides recommmend spelling out only numbers 1-9, another says all from 1 to 99. Either way, it seems that it's proper to spell out small numbers, so it would be: "The Valley of the Shadows is about nine miles from here through the forest."0 votedOctober 13, 20141

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