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Dear friends! I am a teacher of English as a second language. Having profound linguistic background I find it necessary to constantly improve my level of English. I welcome any friends, especially English native speakers interested in linguistics, travelling, language and culture, dancing, figure skating, and other interesting things of our life. Also, it would be very interesting for me to practice teaching Russian as a second language.
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    no, not, not any

    Dear friends,

     

    Please tell me the difference:

    She has no children

    She doesn't have any children

    She doesn't have children

     

    I know that the first two variants are appropriate from grammar point of view.

    But can we use the third variant? Would it be right from grammatical point of view and how it would be transkated?

    June 13, 2016
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    Marry smb and Marry to smb

    Dear friends,

    Please, explain, do English  people ever use to marry TO smb?

    As far as know the only right variant is to marry smb, f.e.

    My mother married my father  20 years ago.

     

    Are there any cases where we use marry TO smb?

    Thank you 

    June 1, 2016
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  • Commented
    Thank you very much Su.Ki for this detailed explanation
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    May 16, 2016
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    Thank you Deb)
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    May 16, 2016
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  • Commented

    Nancy, Richard - thank you very much for the clarification!!

    The previous grammar book told me that "lots of" is used ONLY with countables, so that I was really confused about the use of it  with uncountables as well.

    Now I see, that rule was incorrect. 

     

     

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    April 27, 2016
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    Like doing something or like to do smth

    Dear friends,

     What's the difference between the use of "like doing smth" and "like to do smth". The grammar book says both variants can be used. However, is there any tendency to use them in a certain way or certain context?

     

    Thank you!  

    April 27, 2016
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  • Commented

    All right, to specify my question:

    This book gives me information that we can use Lots of with countables and uncountables. Is it true? 

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    April 15, 2016
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    lots of / much luggage

    Dear English speaking friends, will you please tell  me do we use lots of with luggage?

     

    I know that luggage is uncountable noun(yes?), so that means we need to use it with "a lot of" in positive sentences  and much/ how much in negative and question sentences correspondingly.

    I found an example from grammar book for PET students where they ask to choose between lots of and many with luggage. The key gives the right answer with " lots of" I don't understand   why? As far as I know lots of is used with countables.

    April 15, 2016
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  • Commented
    Catherine, this abstract is taken from Professional English in Use - Law book published by Cambridge University Press. I am not sure there can be a mistake.
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    April 14, 2016
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    Richard, that was the exact thing I thought about. So there might be some disputes where people do not argue rather settle down some issues ( they may be referred to some administrative procedures). My question was which are they? Any example from real life?
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    April 14, 2016
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