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I am a native Dane but have had English schooling since I was fourteen and thus consider myself a bilingual. I am currently on my 6th semester of a bachelor in English (language, history, and literature) at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. I have had language classes in both German (4 years), Korean (1/2 year) and Japanese (1/2 year) and have studied all three languages independently as well. Education: - Danish folk school, Denmark, 1. - 7. grade - MYP, Inter-Community School of Zürich, Switzerland, 8. - 9. grade - Pre-IB and IB programme, Birkerød Gymnnasium, Denmark, 10. 12. grade - Forest- and Landscape Engineering, bachelor’s degree, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 1. - 3. semester (unfinished) - English, bachelor’s degree, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, (ongoing) IELTS score: band 8 (listening 8.5, reading 8, writing 7.5, speaking 7.5) (March 1, 2017) Hobbies: sustainability, cooking, gardening, literature, science fiction, music
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    I'm not sure if I'm writing it right , I will be grateful for any help :) 37. They made an important breakthrough. Yes, important progress, they made a discovery. This phrase is often used within the sciences. When scientist discover an entirely renewable source of energy that can power all of our society, they will have made a breakthrough. It cannot mean a 'break-up' like those couples go through. 38. The business is publicly owned. When a business is publically owned, it means that the business is owned by investors who have shares /stocks in the company. 39. "It must hurt to get a shot. I am not sure I get your meaning here, but the sentence is speculating that it probably is going to hurt to get a needle injection of some kind. Hope that helps :)
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    March 2, 2018
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    You mean, the bubbles/creases that come from not sticking the protector on properly?
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    March 2, 2018
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    I think that is primarily a British English expression :)
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    March 2, 2018
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    A pitch is an outcast for something. The preliminary draw-up of a plan, proposal or article that will guide what the finished product looks like. You can also "pitch an idea" to someone, for example. Insane in this context does not mean that he literally loses his mind, he has not had a mental breakdown. The word is used to emphasize the difference between his new strategy for marketing (which is outrageous because it is very direct) and the normal way of marketing (polite, not very direct). Not having seen the movie, I would guess that the phrase "creates an agency out of people from an insane asylum." means that the main character literally hires people from an insane asylum to work in his ad agency (because of the success of his initial, accidental marketing strategy - when he "went insane")
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    March 2, 2018
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    "to agree on" means to think similarly about a subject. In this context it could be that the parents easily find a name for their baby, they are not arguing about names, each of them having their own opinion. "agree on" is the verb "the way they feel about names" is the object of the sentence "people" is the subject of the sentence
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    March 2, 2018
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    Since you are mentioning two things, I would write: "The main things are the goal and the motivation" But you have used articles correctly :)
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    March 2, 2018
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    Try an app called wordfeud, it's like scrabble but online and you cannot put incorrectly spelled words on the board :)
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    March 2, 2018
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    It's as if the sentence is missing something: ""Please feel free to let me know if anything..." is out of order? ...is missing? ...is wrong? A full and correct sentence wold be: "Please feel free to let me know if there is anything that I can do for you" "Please feel free to let me know if there is anything further that I can do for you" I think both of these sentences can be used in formal settings, like a business email.
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    March 1, 2018
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    I have been teaching as a private tutor since November 2016. I have learned how to use communication devices such as tablets to help students learn and retain new information and I have seen how the tablets can be used to help students learn how to spot each other's mistakes as well as correcting them in the process. Through the use of cellphone and tablet apps, and finding relevant lesson-topics that corresponds to the student's age and interests, it is much easier to get them involved in, and more committed to, their learning process. I have learned that independent learning is an inextricable part of teaching and that learning a language takes time and perseverance. As a result, I have realized that being a good teacher requires patience and understanding and one should always remember to put oneself in their student's shoes.
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    March 1, 2018
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    Both are equally common, because the same phrase means something different when said either genuinely or sarcastically, as you noted. I don't think it makes sense to ask which is more common, when you might as well consider them phrasal homonyms.
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    February 28, 2018
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