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- Neither sentence is correct. The correct sentence is: Unresolved grievances could adversely affect THE motivation of employees. {They AFFECT it.} [This sentence implies emotional impact.] [Something emotional] AFFECTS [something else.] For example: Pain affects work. AFFECT (VERB) - implies emotion or sensory feeling. AFFECTION = a warm positive feeling. EFFECT (NOUN) - an act that is independent of emotion or sensory feeling. EFFECTIVE = something that works successfully. The EFFECT of the accident was that she was unable to work properly because pain AFFECTS work. Her work was AFFECTED by pain. If she has a mean boss then she may be fired, EFFECTIVE immediately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afferent_nerve_fiber#/media/File:Afferent_(PSF).png Here is another way to remember the difference. An AFFERENT nerve carries sensation to the brain. The brain FEELS. An ERRENT nerve carries motor impulse from the brain. The muscles WORK.0 votedOctober 2, 20181
Mentors (please correct me)
Human being needs a big idea- - -"Big idea" sounds wrong. Grand idea? Grand plan?to be happy? [I am correcting the grammar, but I would dispute the claim if I were having a discussion with you.]
Or is it utopia? Life is all about little things or we need a big goal. [Huh? This does not seem to make sense. Did you mean to say?: "Life is all about little things BUT we need a unifying goal."]
I think Sharma said in one of his books THAT only you CAN define THE goalS of your life. But there is one rule; the goalS needs to be bigger than you. THEY needs to be more important than you.
[This does not make logical sense to me. I do not think it is wise advice. Perhaps it would make sense if you have been taught to think that you are unimportant, that you cannot take control of your own life and that your are always going to be a child who needs a parent figure. I see it as a sign of an insecure or immature personality. Did you know that you can grow beyond this?]Do you agree? Or do you think that it depends on the circumstances?
Of course, we are all different. WHAT ABOUT YOU? ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE A feeling that something carries you down the road; THAT YOU DO NOT walk by yourSELF? I tell you: these are not butterflies in your tummy; there is atomic energy inside your feet.
Of course we all know this feeling. [No. We don't all know this feeling. You have already acknowledged this by saying that "we are all different". ] But sometimes we burn out VERY fast. HOW DO YOU keep yourself energized THE whole time? Nowadays THERE ARE so many coaches AND so many books, but there is no UNIVERSALLY AGREED UPON IDEA ABOUT what to do. Do all of us need GRAND goals?
MANY YEARS AGO I heard Oleg Torsunov SPEAK. xxxxxx. xxxxx. He CLAIMED THAT everybody needs a mentor. THIS IS NOT SOMEONE THAT YOU NEED to meet IN PERSON; it can be A virtual teacher. IT CAN BE SIMPLY A person THAT you want to SPEND TIME WITH, OR SOMEONE THAT YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE. Nowadays there are mentors everywhere. You may have TWO OF THEM or FIVE OF THEM!
This is a time WHEN knowledge is VERY accessible, and we should appreciate that. My generation can’t ADEQUATELY compare THIS SITUATION with THE past because we didn’t live during that time. So WE ARE ALL lucky BECAUSE we are surrounded with plenty of resources and SOURCES of inspiration. We can CHOOSE BETWEEN MANY mentorS. We even can be mentors ourselves.[I am still unclear about what a "mentor" is, and what a "mentor" does. Do you just mean "a teacher", or do you mean someone who encourages your and inspires you to learn something, or to strive to be something? ]
0 votedSeptember 15, 20182- No. It is hot. It is hotter. It is the hottest (that) it has ever been. You COULD say: The weather is more hot than I remember. - - - But it doesn't sound quite right to a well educated native speaker. It is best to say: The weather is hotter than I remember. Part of the problem of listening to a foreign language that you are not yet fluent in is that you will not recognize when a native speaker is using a dialect or speaking badly or incorrectly. Foreign language teachers will almost always teach you a prestigious version of the language so that when you use it you are not identified by native speakers as someone who is poorly educated or using a regional dialect that is not well regarded.0 votedSeptember 15, 20180
- Let's chill ON the beach. OR I am staying in a house BY (or BESIDE) the beach. Let's swim in the OCEAN. The ocean is the sea water that washes onto the beach. A beach is a relatively flat piece of land next to the water in an ocean, lake or river. It contains sand, rocks, shells and debris that washes up on the shore. If the edge of the ocean, lake or river are high cliffs or dense overgrowth then there is no beach. Since the beach is NEXT TO the water you cannot swim IN or ON the beach because it contains no water. You swim in the water, the ocean, the lake, the pool, the pond, the dam, the river, or the stream. You usually get into the water by walking on a beach to get to the water's edge. If there is no beach then you would have to jump off rocks or cliffs or out of a boat or swing on a rope tied to a tree that is growing on the banks of the water. A beach is generally covered in sand, shells, pebbles, small or medium sized rocks and sometimes hard mud (if the beach is next to a river or a lake or a dam.)0 votedSeptember 15, 20181
- I called to say THAT I can't come. OR I called because I can't come. I called to say THAT I won't be able to come. OR I called because I won't be able to come. I called to say THAT I am not going to make it. OR I called because I am not going to make it. I called to say THAT I'm not coming. OR I called because I'm not coming. You cannot use "I called" followed by BOTH "to say"" AND ""because" Use one or the other, but NOT BOTH.0 votedSeptember 15, 20180
- //"That" seems as if I were indicating a thing rather than a person, don't it?// No, it isn't doing that. "That" is used for everything: person, animal or thing. Your examples are fine. Say it just like that. //don't it?// This is the wrong declension. I don't You (singular) don't He, she, it doesn't ***** USE THIS ONE --> It [the word "that"] seems...doesn't it? We don't You (plural) don't They don't. // as if I were indicating// This is a very good example of the rare subjunctive case in English. Nicely done. You are going better than far too many badly educated native English speakers. Keep learning. You are doing well.0 votedJuly 27, 20180
Hola Jorge.
To begin with, here are some corrections. (Para empezar, aquí hay algunos correcciones.)
It is best to say:
I would like to practice my English.... [ wold --> would; practices --> practice]and help someone else improve his or her (or their) Spanish. [to improve --> improve; his--> his or her / their]
If someone would like to do this then please contact me. [if--> If; if someone want it --> if someone would like to do this, then ...]
Espero que esto sea útil.Congratulations on being prepared to make mistakes in public. It is scary, but you did it anyway. People who make no mistakes make nothing at all.
Felicitaciones por estar preparado para cometer errores en público. Eso da miedo pero lo hiciste de todo modos. Las personas que no cometen errores no hacen nada.
0 votedJuly 27, 20180- Some uses of BARE are a synonym for NAKED Some uses of BARE are NOT a synonym for NAKED adjective 1. "he was bare from the waist up" synonyms: naked, nude (and others) 2. without addition; basic and simple. "he outlined the bare essentials of the story" synonyms: plain, essential, fundamental (and others) "the bare facts" only just sufficient. "a bare majority" surprisingly small in number or amount. "all you need to get started with this program is a bare 10K bytes of memory" synonyms: mere, no more than, simple (and others) verb 1. uncover (a part of the body or other thing) and expose it to view. "he bared his chest to show his scar" synonyms: uncover, strip, lay bare, undress, unclothe, denude, expose "he bared his arm"0 votedJuly 27, 20180
