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weird structure/order with confusing negatives
so im a native speaker but today i was reading something for class and noticed a lot of old-sounding (potentially archaic or reserved for intellectual literature) syntax, for lack of a better word. > image 1: "he was home but little" this seems like it's saying "he was home (all the time) except for little (= sometimes)" but the contact suggests that he was often *not* home, and rarely was. > image 2: "... his not playing there" as i understand it, "(not) playing there" is treated as a noun in this structure? how does that work? > image 3: "... little old, bent, withered figure..." the lack of a comma between "little" and "old" is confusing me. is one of them acting as an adverb for the other adjective? > image 4: "when is it to be mine?" shouldn't it say "when is it *going* to be mine" instead? > image 5: "the most sluggish of pulses" why is the word "of" included here? wouldn't the sentence be correct without it?
English lessons
Hello, I am Julia a French student, and I have been taking English courses at University since September (I already have between B2 and C1 level). I would just like to be able to communicate with English native speakers to brush up my level. I would prefer to learn British English, but others English are perfectly fine as well! I can speak here or in other social medias, like Instagram or WhatsApp. I speak either through messages or voicecalls. Thanks in advance and have a great day! 😊 PS: the flair I added was just to be able to post, I am not looking for any kind of lessons in particular.
I need tips on reading and vocabulary.
Hello, I am a foreigner whose first language is not English, and I intend to take the SAT in 2025. Even though my English is good, I believe I can reach even higher levels of proficiency in the language. Which books would you recommend to acquire greater richness in vocabulary and expand my linguistic repertoire? Thank you in advance. PS: This is not just for the SAT; I aim to improve my level in the language regardless of the exam. Therefore, I consider any recommendation here to be valid.
'I got 70 pieces of candy for Halloween!' - does this sentence look right? (I'm not sure about the word 'candy' and how to use it when I need to talk about separate pieces of candy)
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hvr7oh/i_got_70_pieces_of_candy_for_halloween_does_this/
What Does "groundings" Mean Here?
Thanks in advance!
Why comma before "not"?
"A decade later, people aren’t trying to sell busyness as a virtue anymore, not even to themselves." This is from The New York Times. Source: [https://archive.is/vBjPZ#selection-669.0-669.99](https://archive.is/vBjPZ#selection-669.0-669.99)
How to ask this?
I am on my fifth day of jogging. How many days have i been jogging now? I don't think this is what I want to express because I can answer it like I have been jogging for 5 days. Am I on my fifth day of jogging? Also not how I want to ask it. My trials and errors, haha. 1. What day am I on in my jogging? 2. Which day am I on in my jogging? 3. What jogging day am I on? 4. What day am I on with my jogging? 5. Which day is it of my jogging? Not sure, in my native language, I can form a question stressing on asking the "fifth" . Every time I want to ask this type of question, I just get blurred. For example... I record a video daily, and I suddenly lose track of the day of recording while recording. How can I ask in a way that can be answered with " Oh yeah, this my fifth day of recording this"? What day of recording is this for me? ( Like this?) What day is this of my recording? ( Like this?) I just can't express the exact question I want. Maybe I'm just blindly translating it from my native language.
so fun/so much fun
Which works? Singing is **so fun/so much fun**.
What does this mean?
https://i.redd.it/77bsbvw6tw9e1.png
I just recorded an audio, where do you guys think I am from?
There it is: https://vocaroo.com/1iljAufhL546.