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Generally speaking, the ideas, and the words needed to express them, (vocabulary) are more important than the grammar.
Just think about how children learn language, and how you learned your native language. Your mother didn't give you a grammar book, but that's what we do in school. In the real world, people learn by interacting with ideas first, and they find (or invent) words to express those ideas. The grammatical structure is secondary.
0 votedDecember 1, 20170- Typically, your Skype ID and Microsoft ID have merged, so you simply need to log into your account (assuming Windows 10 here) and the desktop will be fully integrated with the W10 version of Skype. Other platforms, (Mac, Linux, etc.) or older versions of the Skype application have more options/feature tweaks than the Windows 10 version.0 votedSeptember 18, 20171
In my experience, it almost never does accurately reflect speaking ability. Given the wide variety of certificates, teachers, curriculum, etc. and the fact that our grammar-centric focus often focuses too little on actually speaking, there are too many variables involved.
In the same way that you don't get really good at sports, for example, by learning the rules and reading books about the respective sport, but by actually doing the activity, speaking English is the same.
There's no substitute for doing it in the real world in a native environment.
0 votedSeptember 11, 20170It seems to me that the author(s) are playing loosely here with subject reference and in the same excerpt, we have reference to both "he" and "we" (owing in part to the gendered pronouns in English, which gives rise to the common "he/she/they" problem).
I wouldn't say it's 100% wrong, but it is poorly written, in the sense that it uses vague pronoun reference.
0 votedMarch 7, 20170- <article><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">"Hoist" means to lift by means of ropes and pulleys, but it is commonly used simply as a synonym for "lift".
"The dock workers hooked the rope to the crate and hoisted it over to the land."
"Heave" means to throw something or to pick something very heavy up and very quickly move it to another location with almost a throwing motion (because it is too heavy to carry or lift normally).
Ex: The pirates heaved the captain overboard.
</blockquote></article><article><blockquote class="messageText SelectQuoteContainer ugc baseHtml" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">Tying is a form of binding, but binding is not a form of tying. Bind also carries the meaning of joining two things, where tie does not (necessarily).
</blockquote></article>0 votedFebruary 3, 20170 - Either is acceptable. They vary by region, but another way to say the same thing is "it's too bad that...." It's generally true that "pity" is more common among British speakers. None of them would carry the literal meaning of shame or guilt to a native speaker when used as a phrase in the way you described.0 votedJanuary 15, 20171
