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Failed to get "theirs" - does it refer to "the duty of theirs/the soldiers"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 11:42 AM

Replies: 10
Views: 520

Last Post by layman
on 11/02/15 1:32 AM

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Does "Western students of the Orient" mean "Western students who study/research the Orient"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 10:35 AM

Replies: 4
Views: 301

Last Post by oristarA
on 11/01/15 11:58 PM

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Does "the buildup to the Iraq War" refer to "the accumulation of forces that leads to Iraq war"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 9:47 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 357

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 11/01/15 11:35 PM

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Does "they" here refer to "targets"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 10:25 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 321

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 11/01/15 10:29 PM

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Does "passing as" mean "pretending to be"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 10:40 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 466

Last Post by dalehileman
on 11/01/15 1:11 PM

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Does "Compounding the mystery" mean "making the mystery more mysterious"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 3:50 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 534

Last Post by Setanta
on 11/01/15 4:44 AM

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retain enough of a purchase on reality?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/31/15 6:23 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 410

Last Post by dalehileman
on 10/31/15 12:57 PM

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Does "fluctuations at some scales" refer to "fluctuations at some amplitudes"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 10:26 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 302

Last Post by dalehileman
on 10/31/15 12:56 PM

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Sentence improvement

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English Grammar, Learning English

Question by ankurnkur
Posted 09/03/15 11:09 AM

Replies: 10
Views: 1,979

Last Post by dalehileman
on 10/30/15 4:40 PM

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Does "he can't say that about" refer to "he can't have such good judgement"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 8:40 AM

Replies: 16
Views: 603

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 10/30/15 12:38 PM

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Why is 'women' pronounced wimin?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, Pronunciation, English As A Second Language

Question by tanguatlay
Posted 10/30/15 8:59 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 1,238

Last Post by tanguatlay
on 10/30/15 10:03 AM

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Does "looks like nothing so much as" mean "looks almost exactly as"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 5:47 AM

Replies: 5
Views: 2,044

Last Post by oristarA
on 10/30/15 9:30 AM

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campus

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by WBYeats
Posted 10/23/15 11:07 PM

Replies: 9
Views: 559

Last Post by WBYeats
on 10/30/15 6:50 AM

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What does "pack structure" mean?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/27/15 8:23 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 513

Last Post by layman
on 10/29/15 6:07 PM

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"a $1.4 billion gap" read as "a 1.4 billion dollar gap"? Or "a 1.4 billion dollars gap"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/29/15 5:10 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 390

Last Post by layman
on 10/29/15 5:23 PM

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Does "get it out into the world" mean "carry it out/practice it in reality"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/28/15 10:45 AM

Replies: 7
Views: 349

Last Post by ehBeth
on 10/29/15 3:26 PM

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qualities and tell

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by WBYeats
Posted 10/27/15 5:25 AM

Replies: 4
Views: 430

Last Post by dalehileman
on 10/29/15 9:34 AM

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under or in

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by WBYeats
Posted 10/12/15 5:45 AM

Replies: 5
Views: 597

Last Post by WBYeats
on 10/29/15 5:58 AM

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Does "a shock to the system" mean "a shock to the system of my body"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/28/15 6:05 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 406

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 10/28/15 9:54 PM

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waive meaning

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by WBYeats
Posted 10/23/15 11:12 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 451

Last Post by WBYeats
on 10/26/15 11:01 PM

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inspiration

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by WBYeats
Posted 10/23/15 11:20 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 440

Last Post by WBYeats
on 10/26/15 10:55 PM

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to=direction

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by WBYeats
Posted 10/23/15 10:59 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 407

Last Post by WBYeats
on 10/26/15 10:54 PM

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Do you think the collocation of "substantial stride" sounds native?

Forums: English, Grammar, Efl, Esl, English Grammar

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/26/15 9:39 AM

Replies: 8
Views: 1,758

Last Post by najmelliw
on 10/26/15 2:46 PM

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It's a wash. It's six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language, Learning English

Question by SMickey
Posted 10/21/15 12:19 PM

Replies: 12
Views: 855

Last Post by layman
on 10/26/15 11:12 AM

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Does "than is warranted" mean "than one deserves"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/25/15 8:10 PM

Replies: 1
Views: 388

Last Post by layman
on 10/25/15 8:17 PM

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