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What does "suggest" mean here?
*His own party leader is* ***suggesting*** *that he's been ousted.* Does this mean the leader stated that he's been ousted?
I have a question
"I can get peace of mind getting older." I just make the sentence to translate Korean "나이가 들수록 마음에 여유가 생겼다“ but I actually don't know if it is right nuance.
“It’s hard to make any best friends at work/on the job. Colleagues are just colleagues.” Does this sound natural?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hya2ap/its_hard_to_make_any_best_friends_at_workon_the/
Anyone does help me to know of my mistakes !
I was given a classic fill-in-the-gap task for verb tenses (all of them). However, after i've submitted it done, it won't let me know which ones i didn't do well. Here's the text. Thirteen-year-old Kesz Valdez (1)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (smile) as he receives his award. Today is a big day as he (2)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (just / win) the International Children’s Peace Prize for helping street children in the Philippines. However, life (3)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (always / not be) kind to Kesz. When he was just two years old, his father (4)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (force) him to work in the Cavite City dump. Life was so bad that when he was four, he (5)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (run away) from home and began living on the streets. Then, a few years later, an accident happened. While he (6)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (look for) food in a rubbish dump one night, he (7)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (fall) into a pile of burning rubbish and severely injured his arm. Things couldn't get any worse for Kesz, but fortunately, his luck started to change. A community worker called Harnin Manalaysay (8)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ him \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_(take in), (9)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (look after) him and treated his wounds. Kesz (10) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (never / know) such kindness before, and the experience changed his life. He wanted to help other street children in the same way, so, with his guardian's help, Kesz (11)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (found) an organization called Championing Community Children. Kesz and his friends (12)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (visit) underprivileged communities and talking to children about their rights for eight years now. They (13)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (give out) ‘Hope Gifts' to more than 5,000 children, which include hygiene products, clothing and toys. Since 2006, Kesz (14)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (become) a new voice for the voiceless. “I want children in the streets to get the same chance I had,' he says. ‘My motto is: we can change the world one heart at a time.' Here all my anwsers: 1) is smiling - 2) has just won - 3) wasn't (or hasn't always been) - 4) forced - 5) ran away - 6) was looking for - 7) fell - 8= took him in (i doubt if the right one actually was "***had taken him in***") - 9) looked after - 10) had never known - 11) founded (i have my doubts on this one too, might it have been "**had founded**"? - 12) have been visiting - 13) gave out - 14) became.
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.
What does “Big back” mean?
I was trying to get it but even chatgpt doesn‘t work (big back fast food? what is this)
Where are these accents from?
Hello everyone, I'm not a native speaker and I'm learning to speak English. I really love these two accents and would like to learn how to speak like them. I’ve been analyzing Chris Redfield’s voice from the Resident Evil series, by Roger Craig Smith and Captain America's voice by Chris Evans. Their voices sound so great. But I can’t pinpoint if it matches a specific regional accent in the United States or if it’s more of a neutral American accent. I will post two YouTube video links as examples: Could you please listen to the voices and tell me what you think? Do their voices remind you of a certain city or region? I want to then do my best to research those please to learn those accents. Thank you for your help. [Resident Evil 6 Cutscenes \[HD\] Chris's Cutscenes - 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQSqNXBHMg&ab_channel=MrAlbertWesker08) (starts at 00:30) [https://youtu.be/BW8\_usG\_B0E?si=1dVPZOPRRD41oXNm](https://youtu.be/BW8_usG_B0E?si=1dVPZOPRRD41oXNm) (starts at 00:20)
“it took 4 minutes to get it done” vs “ it took me 4 minutes to get it done”
which is grammatically correct?