Hello! Please answer this." The book is well illustrated and attractively bound making all together/altogether an attractive volume". Which is right between all together and altogether?
Ahh... those three conditionals plus the zero one.
Hmm... the book was published just last year.
The world never has grammar books in short supply! (^_^)
It's probably not bad, but I wouldn't use it.
Judging from a quick review (of mine), it's half traditional half modern.
It seems to aim at documenting the language (i.e., categorize features of the language, briefly for each of them) rather than teaching the language.
It has lots of quizzes, which could be a plus. I didn't try any of them, though.
Judging from the size of the book and the goals I think they had in mind, I don't think they can cover all of them in a satisfactory depth. (The book is over 500 pages, but it tries to cover both grammar and punctuation. FWIW, the PoS part looks thin to me, and that is 1/3 of the grammar part of the book.)
I think their book is intended to be published as an ebook rather than a paper book, judging from the preview of the paper book I can see at Amazon. (Personally, I don't like it, and I think they could use a good graphic designer who cares about typography.)
Conclusion: It's not a bad book, though it's not great either. Two strong features are the quizzes and you can use it as an index of grammar items. The downsides it's not designed to teach the language so it's not very useful for beginners, and because it don't dive into each topic deeply enough, it's probably not very useful to advanced learners either.
I think it does a good job at the layout (indexing the topics) thing.
And a decent enough job at the introductory level of each topic.
I'm pretty sure there are too many holes in it, though, if you want to, say, know English grammar through and through of it.
Probably perfect for the B1 level.
I haven't checked, but IMO, most books written in this style tend to give the learner a false impression that after finishing the book, they'll know all of it, and so they'll be in haste to say an unfamiliar sentence is "incorrect" when it's actually not.
IUPAC nomenclature 2013 changed a couple of rules very commonly used in naming simple acyclic compounds. As a result, depending on which nomencalture we choose, the answer to this question varies greatly, as demonstrated in the comments. Educational textbooks, hence, would propose an outdated nam...
If at the end of the translated document (where a sample was tested and some gas was used in the testing) there is a sheet attached called "Certificate for the gas" (that gas that the researchers used) can I call it "Gas certificate"? Or it is better to call it "Certificate for the gas"?
It's not the title. It's the mention in the main document. Meaning, "what is attached below is the certificate for the gas we used" (the certificate shows that the gas was of the requisite quality (extra pure))
Hi, I'm an ESL student and am new to chat rooms here but I have a question about this reddit post. What's the joke here? Is it something dirty? reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/5rpqie/…
But it seems popular. I found the post on the today's top page of reddit. Does this kind of thing happen a lot? Even native speakers don't get popular internet jokes?
Ah, I have another question....Is using a double hyphen as a dash to insert things common? e.g. I didn't go to school today --I didn't have any class today-- so I went to a grocery store blah blah...
I didn't mean to stir up anything when I said it's a poor style. I guess I was being a bit subjective there, but honestly, it's 2k17, M&N dashes are a thing.
"Danish authorities demand women-only swimming sessions used by Muslim immigrants are scrapped so 'people learn it is natural to swim together'" Shouldn't it read "be scrapped", not "are scrapped"?
You are correct.
Something has to have legs to be able to crawl.
The baby crawled across the floor
Slithering occurs where the entire body of the animal is used for locomotion in a waving back and forth motion
The snake slithered across the ground.
Slithering since it's...
How could this answer have gotten 5 upvotes?!
The answer begins with "You are correct".
And the OP thought "A snake and a snail can only slither."
Can someone translate this phrase from Urdu to English
"Hum Dushman ko maza chaka dain gy"
ہم دشمن کو مزہ چکھا دیں گے
The literal English of this phrase is "We Will let the enemy enjoy the taste of his defeat", but there should be a proverb of it in English which I am unable to find....
I've been told that when a company requests a study or an analysis of its samples to be performed by another company, it's not a request but always a requisition
Is that true?
This was told by a person with a couple of decades of translation experience and some solid scientific credentials
The only time I use slither is if I want to imply something is snake-like, for example "The guy from marketing just slithered in here and tried to take credit for our work"
However, I think we shouldn't confuse the enquirer with these, more general and abstract definitions. At least not as long as their grasp on the essential meanings of the words remains tentative.
@ColleenV Well, I'm not so sure, and I can gauge their command of English only by what they have said: "As far as I know, the creatures that have legs crawl and the animals that are legless can either slither or creep." – whence they seem to've fallen under several misapprehensions.
It's definitely an interesting question because most learner's dictionaries don't expound much on such details.
@user2684291 Yeah which is why I think it's good to mention some of the other meanings. It's hard for me to judge as a native speaker exactly what the difficulty is, but I worry that by not mentioning other common ways the word can be used, it makes it more confusing when a learner comes across those usages because they don't even know they could exist.
@user2684291 I just have a personal problem that makes it impossible for me not to think of all the different variations :) I don't like the words "every", "never", and "always" much either.
You are correct.
Something has to have legs to be able to crawl.
The baby crawled across the floor
Slithering occurs where the entire body of the animal is used for locomotion in a waving back and forth motion
The snake slithered across the ground.
Slithering since it's...
Can someone translate this phrase from Urdu to English
"Hum Dushman ko maza chaka dain gy"
ہم دشمن کو مزہ چکھا دیں گے
The literal English of this phrase is "We Will let the enemy enjoy the taste of his defeat", but there should be a proverb of it in English which I am unable to find....
I would eat well when I was a child.
I used to eat well when I was a child.
Is there any difference in the meaning between these two sentences.
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