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I am from England and I am learning French because my wife grew up in England but is half-French. I would love to be able to engage in conversation with her French side of the family and navigate France more easily without help!
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- In this context 'check in successfully', check in registered' and 'check in success' is not good English. I would say 'check in successful' if you want to use those words. If they are just logging into a webpage for their course then I think 'sign in successful' or 'login successful' would be even better. If you can use more words then my favourite is 'you have successfully signed in' or 'you have successfully logged in'. I would be interested to hear other opinions.0 votedDecember 21, 20152
- A barber is a person who cuts men's hair and shaves/trims beards as their occupation. It is not a gender-neutral term - barber is typically used to refer to a male who cuts the hair of other males. A hairdresser is a person who cuts and styles hair as their occupation and is not gender-specific. A barber is also a hairdresser but a hairdresser is not always a barber. Generally most the clientele of a hairdresser are women but men also have their hair cut here. In my experience, most men will go to a barber to have their hair cut. It is clear when the place is a barbers and is normally clearly labelled on the shop front. A barber normally does a straightforward, quick, and cheap cut/trim. I go to a hairdressers now for convenience and it has been more expensive but they have paid more attention to styling my hair and wash it too. Establishments which only cut women's hair are sometimes called hairstylists, cosmetologists, beauticians or makeover artists.0 votedDecember 21, 20151
- Most of the time, either would be acceptable depending on the intended meaning of the sentence. However, there is a subtle difference. 'Like' implies comparison whereas 'such as' implies inclusion. In your first sentence, you're including Mexico City as an example of a busy city. In your second sentence, you are making a comparison between someone else and your brother. 'Such as' is not appropriate in this sentence ("your brother is a friendly guy, not such as my brother") and it doesn't read well. So there are scenarios where you would use one and not the other. Let me give you an example which highlights the difference between 'such as' and 'like'. If you say "I want to visit a historical city such as Florence or London" then you are including Florence and London as specific examples of places you want to visit. However, if you say "I want to visit a historical city like Florence or London" then you are comparing Florence and London to the types of city you want to visit but you don't necessarily want to visit Florence and London. Perhaps you want to visit Rome which has a comparable amount of history to Florence. However, most people would interpret this sentence as you saying you want to visit Florence and London. As I said before, the difference can be very subtle.0 votedDecember 18, 20153
- I would understand what you mean because you explicitly say 'in this song'. However, generally a 'piece of music' refers to the whole composition rather than part of the song. I would say "in this song, I like the part with the saxophone". You wouldn't say "in this song, I like the part of music with the saxophone". It's redundant to say 'music' as you've already said 'in this song' so it's assumed you're talking about the music when you say you like the part with the saxophone.0 votedDecember 16, 20151
- Both sentences are correct and have the same meaning. The comma just adds a slight pause. The use of 'therefore' in both sentences makes them quite formal, I wouldn't say either sentence is politer than the other. In conversation most people would say something like "it's raining so I'm not going out". You can't always replace 'and' with a comma though. "It's raining" and "therefore I won't go out" are two independent clauses. They could be two sentences but you can connect them by using a conjugation (and, but, for, nor, yet, or, so). Obviously not all of these conjugations will be grammatically correct in the example sentence.0 votedDecember 15, 20151
- Hi everyone! This is also for my act "2" which is between two people .. (Polite and rude).. Please fix my mistakes :)) .. I appreciate your help:)) A. Hey Rim look at this woman, I bet you her hair is not real. She is wearing a wig. That color does not suit her skin color, she looks horrible. B. What's wrong with you! Could you stop commenting and staring at people. A. Come on Rim, do not try to be polite. Look look, she is an elderly woman and wearing a lot of make-up, who knows, maybe she thinks it makes her look like a young woman. B. I do not believe that, could you respect these people. I think this is not civilized behavior. A. What is the matter? Why are you so annoyed? I resisted the urge to change the American English spelling to British English... :)0 votedDecember 15, 20152
- 'I invited the girls over for poker' sounds better. 'Over' is there because it is saying that travel was involved i.e. they came to your house to play poker. For example, here are some other uses of the word 'over' in the context of travel: "come over here and talk to me", "she came over to my house to eat dinner", "what is that over there?". You can say 'I invited the girls for poker' but it doesn't sound as good. I would change it to say "I invited the girls to play poker" which sounds better but it doesn't tell you where you are going to play it. The best: "I invited the girls over to play poker".0 votedDecember 14, 20151
Is life more comfortable than it was in the past?
Life is the most cherished possession we have. We wouldn't be able to do anything if we were not alive. Some may think that today life is easier than it was when our grandparents were children; others do not think so. I think today life is easier today and more comfortable than it was when my grandparents were children, for two reasons.
First, technology makes life much more easier than it was when our grandparents were childeren. Technology helped us do things in simpler ways, so it made life easier. For example, many years ago, when my grandparants were children, humans had to work a lot in order to earn food. They worked hard to prepare make the land prepar for cultivation. Sometimes, they worked for several months and just only prepared a small amount of land for cultivation, so there was almost always there were not enough food. Furthermore, they had many difficulties with irrigating. They just were only were able to cultivate where when they were near a river. Consequently, many times they often suffered a lot from shortage of food shortages. But nowadays, using technology helps farmers prepare enough land for cultivation in just in a some few days. Also, water pumps are used in order to provide enough water for cultivation. As a result, today we have enough food. Nowadays we rarely suffer from a lack lacking of food, which is a huge difference compared to in comparison with it was in the past. As you can see, today because of technology we can live much more an easier life than compared to the past.
Secondly, nowadays humans suffers from diseases less often than it was in the past. Today medicine is developed and most diseases can be cured just in just a few some days, whilst when my grandparents were children they had to suffer from a simple disease for a long time. Finally they healed or died just by chance. For instance, my mom told me that her grandmom had been died from a simple cold. She got a cold. Because she had to work, therefore she was not able to take a care of herself. You know, if they did not work, then they had nothing to eat. So, after some time, when she suffered from that cold, the disease developed and she died from it. Just compare this with the situation what we have nowadays. Today if you get a cold, you will be cured just in just a few some minutes and you never suffer from it. So, I don't think we could compare the convenience nowadays convienenc with the situation (OR 'the past') what we had before. As you can see, because medicine is developed humans is are more comfortable today than before.
In sume summary, I think our life lives is are more easier easy today than it was in the past when our grandparents were children. Not only does technology make life easier, b0 votedDecember 14, 20151- As an adjective I cannot think of a scenario where they are not synonymous with each other. There are just contexts where one would be more appropriate to use. For example 'his biological mother' sounds better than 'his biologic mother' though this isn't incorrect. When talking about companies you would normally say 'company X sells biologics' rather than 'company X sells biologicals' ('company X sells biological products' is better). In general, I would use 'biological' rather than 'biologic'. As a noun, the definition for 'biologic' is "another term for biological". As you can see, the differences are very subtle. I would use 'biological' if you ever get confused.0 votedDecember 12, 20151
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