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- I would say the difference is when you are talking about America, and what America has, it is "America's". America's mountains - we are talking about America, and the mountains it has. When you are talking about things that either are in, or from America, or have the nature of "America", if you like, it is "American". American mountains - we are talking about mountains. Which mountains? The ones in America. There are a lot of times when either could be used, but I would say that is the main difference between the two.0 votedJuly 7, 20171
Please, correct my sentences (practising inversions)
Seldom had I wished to go home on the buss bus.Not until only was were you drunk, but also short of money.
Little did she knew know about my personal circumstance at home.
Under no circumstances had I wished to travel to the abroad in the Summer.
Only having read through the revue review did I decide to watch the film.
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Yesterday I received an order from my bookshop. I bought some books for my son and two books for me. One of them it is "On the Origin of Species" by Darwin. I have heard many opinions about this book, but more part most of them had a good mark score. When I will finish a book, have finished the book which I am reading now, I will read this book.
I like to read. I buy a lot of books each month and, frankly speaking, I don't read all of them. But I like to look on at them and I like to have a choice when I want to start read a new book.0 votedJune 15, 20171- It's not very common, but it is something you might say. "Frank" being open, honest and direct. "Fairly" in this sense being "middling" - so someone who is in not the *most* open, honest and direct person in the world, but they are still like that pretty much all the time. If you are thinking of "fairly" in the sense of "fair" meaning "honest, even, just", then the more natural way of putting this would be "fair and frank".0 votedJune 15, 20170
- To add on to what Dom said, "When I woke up the sun rose and the sky was blue" makes this into a sequence. You woke up *and then* the sun rose *and then* the sky was blue. The sky wasn't blue until the sun finished rising. "When I woke up the sun was rising and the sky was blue" is saying what was happening at that moment when you woke up. The sun was in the middle of rising - it had started, and hadn't yet finished - and the sky was, at that moment, blue.0 votedJune 15, 20171
I'm much the same - I don't drink alcohol, don't smoke, and I don't drink tea or coffee. Not drinking tea is almost the worst, as I live in the UK!
I think the way we say these things can be as important as what we say. Sometimes, just giving the raw information can come across as blunt, especially if someone is offering you something and you are saying "no".
The way I do it is to be very casual, and to say that it's something I never really got into. I want to make sure they realise it isn't something that means much to me, it's just what I do (or don't do!). And importantly, that I'm not judging people who do drink or smoke or whatever. And that I am perfectly capable of having fun without those things!
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