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Hello agie,
That is fine, yes.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello agie,
You can say 'help you learn' or 'help you to learn'. There is no difference in meaning.
'
Help you learning' is not correct. You could say 'help you with your learning'.We wouldn't say 'the top part of the story'. I'm not sure what you mean, but perhaps we would say 'the first part of the story' or 'the first paragraph of the story', or 'the beginning of the story'.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Prap
It can be both. A noun phrase can be used adverbially -- this is another way of saying that the noun phrase functions as an adverb in a sentence (in this case, for example, it can tell you more about the frequency of an action) -- and in that sense it is also an adverbial phrase.
I hope that helps you make sense of it.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Rafaela1
Strictly speaking, 'well' is the correct form here, but people often use 'good' instead of 'well' in informal speech in a sentence like this.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Bonne,
I'm not sure what you mean by 'analyse' here. Is this a sentence which you've written and would like to know if it is correct, or a sentence you have found somewhere and which you don't understand?
If the sentence is yours, then we would need to know what you want to say in order to tell you if the sentence is OK or not. If the sentence is from somewhere else, then we would need to know the context before we comment on it.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello briskmusk,
Both 'as though' and 'as if' are possible here and have the same meaning as 'like'.
The exercise asks for either 'as' or 'like', however, not a two-word answer.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Lal,
I'm afraid there is no way to tell this in advance. You simply have to memorise each item. Compound nouns can change their spelling over time as well, so an item may begin as two separate words but over time (many years) may become one word.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Lal,
'courtship' is not a compound noun, since '-ship' is a suffix rather than a noun in this case, but the others you mention could be considered compound nouns. Please see this Cambridge Dictionary page for an introduction to this topic. If you have any specific questions after that, please let us know.
All the best,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Ahmed,
Yes, 'breathe' means to draw in air through your mouth or nose. If we stop doing this for any more than a short time we die!
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Ahmed Imam,
Generally, we use 'think of' to mean 'imagine' or 'dream of' and 'think about' to mean 'consider'. Both can be used when we are remembering something in a nostalgic way, and I think in your example both forms are possible.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Nisala Jayasuriya,
I can see the two sentences but I don't see a question! What would you like to ask us?
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello amol,
The superlative usually has a definite article before it unless there is a possessive adjective (my/your etc).
There are some cases in which the article is optional and some in which it should not be used.
When the superlative comes before a noun, the article is needed:
not
When a superlative adjective is in the predicative position, meaning it comes after rather than before the noun and follows a verb, it can be omitted, especially in informal use:
or
The same is true of superlative adverbs:
or
When the superlative is in the predicative position and you are compare the same thing in different situations you should not use an article:
not
I hope that helps to clarify it for you.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello amol,
We would use 'very' in this sentence.
We use 'much' to modify verbs in negatives and questions, so you could say these:
Were the police criticised much?
I don't think the police were criticised much.
'Much' usually comes after the verb rather than before it.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello amol,
The correct word here is 'very'. We use 'much' to modify comparative adjectives (much bigger, much more beautiful) but not to modify adjectives.
There are two exceptions is in a certain type of informal/slang question:
Person A yawns.
Person B: Tired much?
As I said, this is a non-standard use.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Nisala Jayasuriya,
The first sentence is correct; the second is not.
The first sentence uses the -ing form as part of a participle clause. You can read more about these on this page.
The second sentence is not correct. You could add a relative pronoun ('which' or 'that'):
Actually I was busy with lots of things which were happening around me
Alternatively you could have two sentences:
Actually I was busy. Lots of things were happening around me.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Nisala,
That works, though please note that 'fielding' is misspelt and that some kind of article (either 'a' or 'the') should be used before 'muddy surface'.
All the best,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Goncharush,
The first sentence is correct and is the best option stylistically, in my view.
If you wanted to use 'last time' then you could say:
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello amol,
Much as an adverb is most often used before comparative adjectives: much better, much easier.
It can be used with superlative adjectives: much the best, much the easiest.
With past participles it is used quite rarely. It tends to be seen in more formal texts and usually only in certain expresssions: much loved, much needed, much changed. It cannot be used in place of very in most expressions.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi David,
The second one is correct. If you changed the first one to 'I just woke up', it would be correct, though more natural in American English than in British English.
All the best,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi sujit kumar,
'might have' and 'could have' can both be used to talk about a possible action in the past with little or no difference in meaning. Your sentence is well-formed grammatically, but I wouldn't recommend saying 'might have' or 'could have' here because the last part ('luckily I just managed to get out of the way') shows that you were nearly hit. In other words, 'might have' and 'could have' suggest that it was possible in a theoretical way, whereas the last part of your sentence that it wasn't just theoretical -- it nearly happened.
What I'd recommend instead is something like 'I was nearly hit by a car, but luckily I just managed to get out of the way' or 'I might have been hit by a car but luckily was not'.
I hope this helps you make sense of it.
All the best,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team