1) roads as used here is a mass noun (roads in general cause some problem). So no article is used. 2) When you say: at these times it is referring to specific time based occasions. So you would use at. Same as: Sometimes the train is late. At these times... At the end of the class......

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Couldn't he is correct: If he had joined the meeting, he could have learned many things, couldn't he? Alternate wording: If he had joined the meeting, he could have learned many things, could he not? There are also the more informal alternatives If he had joined the meeting, he co...

I must do it(present tense) I had to/was to do it(past tense)

be (all) the better for something meaning: to improve as a result of something e.g. Their performance will be all the better for a little extra practice. I would word it just like this, "Their performance will be better for a little extra practice.". or "Their performance will be b...

Yes, it's perfectly correct ! Using a place means you are telling about a place you know. Using some place means you are telling about a place you might not know.

For example, there is a sentence: This is just what we are looking for When we read it fast, how to read "what we"? "what we", the t is soft "wha twe", the tw is read together like in tween Which is correct? PS: I have the same problem with that we and other word before we with t ending...

Sustained is being used in its sense of "prolonged" or "maintained for a long time without a break". "Sustain" comes from Latin teneō, meaning "I hold", plus a prefix meaning "from below"—in other words, to hold something up. In English, the word still conveys a feeling of expending effort or ene...

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What should I say and which of these sentences is true? If there is not much rain in a year, the rings in a tree are close together OR If there is not much rain in a year, the rings in a tree will be close together If I removed "in a year" from the sentence would this make any difference? A ...

My headache was so bad by then I could barely go to class. And when I managed to do it, I couldn't listen to the professor at all. Can I just write, "And when I managed to, I couldn't..."?