2013年9月10日 · As simple as this problem may seem, It has been driving me crazy for quite a while now! Look at this sentence: "I was in the class. I told the students to open up their books to page 45 and asked one of them to start reading from line 12" Is there a difference between the sentence above and...

2013年6月6日 · But how do you call in English a lesson/class when one teacher suddenly has to conduct a lesson/class because a subject teacher is off work that day (e.g. when suddenly a teacher falls sick and can not come to school and another teacher has to take up his/her class). It is not a make-up lesson, if I am not wrong.

2008年1月29日 · A friend of mine who was hunting a job asked me to be one of her references. So recently, I got this reference form from one of the companies she interviewed. There is this blank "In what capacity have you known the applicant" which I don't quite understand what to put in. Does it refer to...

2017年9月19日 · He got the first place in the class. He secured the first place in the class. He is the first boy in the class. He is the best boy in the class. In the U.S. we don't have this idea: we do not announce that one student is the "first" or the "best" in the class. It simply is not done. The closest thing we have is individual exams.

2016年6月27日 · Hi, all! I am so puzzled about the subject /verb agreement. For example, the whole class ( )(be) listening to the teacher attentively. The correct answer is the "are". But I thought both singular and plural are OK. What about your opinions? Thank you!

2011年12月20日 · The teacher asked if _________ to bring our textbooks to class. a) had we all remembered b) all we had remembered c) we had all remembered d) had all we remembered I'm not sure about the answer of this question. Could you tell me what the correct answer is? Thank you in advance.

2011年5月12日 · Many philosophers of enlightenment also regarded Vernunft as a self-sufficient source of ethics, justice and the principles of civilization without the necessity of a higher source like a god. In epistemology , we find Schopenhauer's definition as cited by Gernot, where Vernunft is what a Verstand needs more to be able to create concepts and to ...

2006年10月18日 · Have you got any examples of full sentences where the article is omitted? Obviously, you can use it without an article in the plural: "The human resources department gave presentations on a variety of subjects". But, if it's singular, it needs an article: "The human resources department gave a presentation on the code of ethics".

2020年1月10日 · Application to the school principal for fee concession: Sir, my father earns very small amount of money. He cannot pay my fee which is Rs. 3000. I am good in studies. I am at the top of my class. Please make some concession in my fee. Is the underlined part idiomatic? It means: I am the topper...

2017年10月23日 · Hello, As stated in the topic I'm wondering whether the word metacognition and the adjective metacognitive need to be hyphenated/ can be hyphenated/ must not be hyphenated. The terms are often used in scientific papers within the social sciences, (especially within various fields of psychology)...