Diane
English
Nov 6, 2019
It was nice chatting with you, Max I enjoyed hearing about your English study goals, and I look forward to helping you to achieve them. I'm sure you're going to progress rapidly with regular practice. Speak to you soon!
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Hi. I'm looking for spaeking partner to learning English. I live in Russia, and so I native russian speaker. I work automation engineer. I begane to prepare to IELTS. I like to play chess, reading geopolitican articls, and spend the free time on a open area with my family.
If you want to have a convercation, we can talk on Skype.
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- How to difference Past Indefinit and Past Perfect? There is a task in my grammar book - "Put the verb in the brackets into the correct form Past Indefinite or Past Perfect". There is a sentece: 1. There was an accident at the mountain top. Some skier ________(break) his leg and the ambulance men were carrying him to the road. So we _______(stop) to let them pass. My version is established below: 2. There was an accident at the mountain top. Some skier broke his leg and the ambulance men were carrying him to the road. So we had stopped to let them pass. The version in the key book is presented below: 3. There was an accident at the mountain top. Some skier had broken his leg and the ambulance men were carrying him to the road. So we stopped to let them pass. Why I made those mistakes? May be there is a perfect rule to difference tenses Past Perfect and Past Indefinite?February 2, 202010
- Present Continuous or Present Perfect? There is a task in my Grammar book - put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. And there is a sentence: "We____(stay) here for nealy a week. I hope you'are not thinking of leaving". My version: 1. "We're staying here for nealy a week. I hope you'are not thinking of leaving". My version is so, because for my prospective, the action started a few days ago, it's still happening around present moment, and it'll be happening some time in the futire (maybe several days). But, in the key book for this task the sentence build as below: 2. "We have stayed here for nealy a week. I hope you'are not thinking of leaving". Which of sentences are more natural for the native English? Can anyone help me to determine what's wrong, why I've was wrong?January 20, 202040
- Whether "did" or without at the Interrogative form? In my Grammar book there is a task to put the sentence into a correct form. And there is a sentence: 1. "Who______(invent) the telephone?". My version of sentence is: 2. "Who did invent the telephone?" But in the keys to this task the sentence looks as below: 3. "Who invented the telephone?' Can anybody explain me, why in the interrogative form of the key sentence 3 it doesn't use the auxiliary verb "did"?January 17, 202060
- Hi Megan. Yes the meaning of the sentence as you have written down - "Even with just a few words spoken, they will be fighting." But, my sence of that tense (Future Continuous) is following: 1. They will be quarrelling from 5:00 AM to 5:30AM (the time may be differ. It noted there for example). My sence of Future Indefinite is following: 2. They will quarrel means that they will do that, not surely because there is condition - "if a few words will say".0 votedJanuary 9, 20200
- Future Indefinite or Future Continuous? What sounds more natural for english speakers? There is a task in my Grammar book. It's sounds - "put the verb in brackets into the correct form, Future Indefinite or Future Continuous. There is a sentence: "A few words and they ______(quarral) again." My version is: 1. A few words and they will quarrel again. But version in task's keys is apart, as showed below: 2. A few words and they will be quarrelling again. What sentence sounds more natural?January 9, 2020110
- Hi Cris!. Thank you! You give me a valuable advice regarding existance of "Blue Murphy associated supplemental exercises book". I have "Blue Murphy. A self-sdudy reference and practice book", but I didn't suspect than there is book mentioned above. I'll surely buy this book and resume my sdudy with it. Thank you very much!0 votedJanuary 5, 20200
- How to resolve the problem of identifying the stative verbs? In my Gramma book I have a task to put the verbs in brackets into the correct form (Past Continuous or Past Indefenite). There is a sentence: "I ________(look) out the window. The car ________(stand) where I ________(leave) it" My version is: "I looked out the window. The car was standing where I left it" But my version is wrong, and in the keys to this task correct sentence looks like below: "I looked out the window. The car stood where I left it" If I undestand rightly, I have a problem with identifying stative verbs, so I confuse stative verbse and active verbs. And I incorrectly put the stative verb "stand" into the Continuous form. Can somebody confirm my mistake? Am I right? So, If It's true, can somebody give me advice how exactly identify the stative verbs? Maybe there's a some efficient trick/method to recognize and separate stative verbs?January 5, 202070
- Can I use Past Continuous? In my Gramma book there is a task showed below: "Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form" There is a sentence: Bob_________(take) a nap while I_______(paint) the ceiling. My version is: Bob was taking a nap while I was painting the ceiling. But in the keys to this task sentence forms like below: "Bob took a nap while I was painting the ceiling." May my version, mentioned above, be valid? My thoughts are directed as following: Bob was performing/doing his action (sleep) during some event (when I was painting the ceiling). So, we have a temporary action taking place at a given moment in the past, and it fairly to use Past Continuous in both clauses of considered sentence. Am I right?January 4, 2020100
- Have or having? May the verb "HAVE" be used in the Continuous Form? In my Gramma Book there is task - "Put the verb into the correct form" They_____(be) in the cafe. They_______(have) their breakfast. I put the verbs as below: They are in the cafe. They have their breakfast. But, in the keys to this task this sentence is showed as below: They are in the cafe. They are having their breakfast. Till now, I thought that verb "have" can't be use at the Continuous Form, because in my Grammar book there is an exeption for this verb in Present Continuous Topic. This exeption says "Verbs denoting abstract ralations - to be, TO HAVE, to contain...etc." don't use in the Continuous Form. Also there is addition to this statement - "the groups of verbs do not express a process.". Also, on YouTube I saw the lesson about verbs, where it was said that verbs devides on tow groups -- state verbs and action verbs, and state verbs never used in the Continuous Form. So, is it mean that in my sentence the verb "have" is not state verb? Maybe expression "have breakfast" is like idiom?January 2, 202060
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