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I grew up in upstate New York, and moved to Boston when I started university studies more than 40 years ago. I majored in computer science and minored in Spanish language and literature. I have also studied a few other languages for a few months each (French, Mandarin Chinese, German, Arabic, Japanese). My step-mother and her children are from Brazil, and that's why I'd like to learn to speak Portuguese better. Me crié en el estado de Nueva York, y me mudé a Boston cuando comencé mis estudios universitarios hace más de 40 años. Cursé la informática como carrera principal y la lengua y la literatura españolas como carrera secundaria. También estudié algunos otros idiomas por varios meses cada uno (francés, chino mandarín, alemán, árabe, japonés). Mi madrastra y los hijos de ella son de Brazil, y eso es la razón por la cual quiero aprender a hablar mejor el portugués.
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    You can say “ I have a repairman coming...” for any context. In some contexts you may be able to say something different if you wish. Fir example: If the repairman travels locally to reach you, you can say “I have a repairman coming over...” OR “ I have a repairman coming by...” If the repairman must travel a long distance, such as from another city to your city, you can say “I have a repairman coming in...” If the repairman must travel a long way from the nearest city out to a rural area, you can say “I have a repairman coming out...”
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    August 6, 2021
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    I’m from the US. I would say: She one Second Prize for Teaching Achievement in (year).
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    September 27, 2020
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    One possibility is: I get by in English.
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    September 18, 2020
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    A drill is a practice session for what to do when an emergency alert happens. The emergency alert is specific to the type of emergency: fire, armed attackers, flood, tornado, and so on. When the emergency alert starts, announcing “this is not a drill” means that the threat is real, and this event is not a practice session.
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    September 16, 2020
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    It depends on the manner in which they cannot sing the tune “correctly”. If they cannot stay on key, or sing in tune with other people or with instruments, we often say that they are tone deaf.
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    September 16, 2020
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    They are different. In the US they have legal definitions. Wages is pay based on hours doing work, usually as scheduled by a manager. Salary is pay based on fixed amount per period of time and working as many hours as necessary to finish assigned tasks.
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    September 4, 2020
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    Both are correct. #1 is more common in conversation.
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    September 4, 2020
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    “Scared” is the past tense and past participle of the verb “to scare” = to cause someone to feel fear. As a past participle we can also use it as an adjective as a synonym for “afraid”.
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    September 1, 2020
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    Afraid is an adjective: someone is afraid of something. We also use afraid in the expression “to be afraid that X”, which we use in two ways. 1. Sometimes it simply means “I fear that”. 2. Sometimes we say this when we answer a question or give information to suggest that we are not responsible for the answer or information, or that we can’t do anything to change the answer or information. For example, “I’m afraid that I won’t be able to visit you tomorrow.” = I can’t visit you tomorrow”, or “I’m afraid that you will have to talk to X to resolve this issue” = “I do not have be the authority to help you resolve this issue, all I can do it tell you who has the authority.”
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    September 1, 2020
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    Fear is either a verb or a noun. As a verb, to fear something = to be afraid of something OR to be scared of something. As a non-count noun fear is the name of the emotion. As a countable noun fears are the things that a person fears.
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    September 1, 2020
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