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I am an education graduate student with some background in linguistics. I am particularly interested in helping English language learners with pronunciation.
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    This is tough to explain in words! See if you can find recordings of a native speaker to listen to. You may want to do a web search to learn more about voiced and unvoiced consonants. (You can search for 'voice' and 'phonetics' together.) This difference will be similar to the difference between the consonant sounds at the end of the following words: hit hid hiss his pick pig
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    November 2, 2011
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    Good question. "Last hurrah" refers to something festive before a period comes to an end. "Home stretch" has more to do with the period right before finishing something- often work or some kind of ordeal. Some google searches (or google news searches) for the two terms might help clarify the differences.
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    November 2, 2011
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    The first one is correct; this is an example of the subjunctive mood in English (do a Google search for reference). The subjunctive is ignored frequently, which is why the second sentence seems perfectly fine.
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    November 2, 2011
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    I agree with fdmaxey. An even more standard way to express this would be I don't know this word or I don't know what this word means "Understand" seems to imply that you are engaging in more elaborate mental activity (though of course in verbal communication it can refer to clarity of communication).
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    October 28, 2011
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