You're welcome Ali! Compound nouns can be confusing as they can be made up from many different types of words (eg noun+noun, adjective+noun, verb+noun, etc). 'My apologies to the dictionary' is what we would say.

Best wishes, Melanie

Hello,

Remember that characters in movies don't always speak in a correct, grammatical way...! ;-)

I assume here they just omitted the verb 'are' from the start of the question, so in full it would be "Are you refusing to serve the court?" - this kind of omission occurs sometimes in informal speech, or sometimes the 'are' is just barely pronounced.

Hope that helps!

Melanie

Hi Ali,

The dictionary is correct - 'fraud' is a noun. It's being used here as a compound noun - facing 'fraud charges' means this person has been charged with fraud.

The adjective that comes from fraud is 'fraudulent'.

Hope that helps!

Melanie

Hello, you're right to be confused as that sentence doesn't make sense - I imagine it is supposed to be 'Is this ALL there is?' which might make more sense, depending on the context.

Best wishes, Melanie :-)

As a native speaker of British English, I find the original sentence 'All I have done today is watch television' correct and by far the most natural. Similarly: 'what would you like to do today - watch television or play tennis?', and 'I was so tired, all I wanted to do was watch television/sleep/go to bed, etc'

Hi Reka, I'm learning Spanish too and particularly like learning through songs. I've discovered the perfect radio station called Cadena Dial, which plays pop music all day only in Spanish. It's based in Spain so although there are some Latin American songs, there are loads from Spain too and the presenters are Spanish. You can listen online or there's an app which tells you the name of the song and artist so can make a note of who you like best - I love it and am listening right now while I write! Melanie :-)

Hi Julia, it's because it doesn't mean just 1 child has a computer - 'almost 1 in 2 children' means almost half of all children, which is obviously a huge number of children. That's why they have used the verb in the plural. Hope that helps..! Melanie