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How do you ask someone who is laying down to go into a seating position ?
I feel like asking them to "sit down" is implying that they should go "down" or lower. So should I use the verb "to seat up" or just a whole other verb ? I don't know if I managed to make myself clear, if I didn't let me know. Thanks in advance !
Teachers do not correct my mistakes and say it is normal practice
For the last two months I have been constantly trying to find a good English teacher or language course. All of them didn’t correct my mistakes during lessons and didn’t provide any feedback at the end of the lesson, thus I usually didn’t know what grammar topic has to be revised or what lexical mistakes should be corrected. Some of them just said that I am fine and they were able to understand me, that is why I should not bother. Moreover, they insisted that such corrections can disrupt the flow of the lesson and cultivate the fear of speaking. This argument sounds ridiculous to me, because I have a certain speaking experience with natives from the UK and USA (working professionals, PhD level) and I didn’t have any fear while communicating with them. I always notified every teacher about my experience and told them that I really want to rid off many basic mistakes. The answer always was “you don’t need it”, “you are fine”, “B1 level is enough” and so on. Some of them even told me that after some practice almost all mistakes will magically disappear. Honestly, I feel really gaslighted by this. Having several hundreds of speaking experience with natives and still making a lot of basic mistakes, I always feel perplexed, when I hear that everything I need is just more practice. Has anyone had a similar experience? And a question for English teacher, do you agree with this approach of not correcting your students and providing the feedback?
When someone asks, "Can I borrow your car?" and you do them a solid free of charge, do you loan or lend them the car? Or are they interchangeable?
The title:) I wouldn't want to confuse my student, I need to be sure. What's the important difference and which one is more used in daily conversations when discussing borrowed things? Also, can I just use "give" and "ask" when a thing is getting borrowed? If so, what would it sound like naturally? Thank you everyone in advance! Much appreciated!
Does the word "collidee" exist?
Kinda Employer - employee Collider - colidee huh?
What should I sincerely call a nice stranger who helps me
This community is nice and there are lots of people who are willing to help others and figure out their problems. So, I want to know how to call a stranger with my gratitude in case of making mistakes of calling other "buddy" or any other terms that might be offensive.
Why "He looked at me as if I was a spawn of Satan because I was smoking a cigarette." and not "He looked at me as if I were a spawn of Satan because I was smoking a cigarette."
It's "if I were", so why is it "as if I was"?
What is "FREAK"
what is freak? And aside from being synonymous with the word "weird" I guess there are more def. For this
Does this sound natural in spoken English?
Every time I go on a trip, I can't fully relax after the plane lands. Because as it's heading to the spot where I'm supposed to get off, I feel like some other plane could come and crash into it.
How do i improve my accent?
not sure if this is the right flair or the right sub for it but I have a very typical Indian accent whenever i speak in English, i have tried videos and some apps to try and mimic what they say but i can only do that for words, i keep failing whenever i have to speak in sentences. for example, i can say *bo'ohw'o'wo'er* but when i have to speak a sentence, it automatically becomes "bottle of water"
"Do" is difficult for me.
I sometimes get confused when I study English. In the example sentence "You can speak English"If you are asked to make this sentence a question,It will be"Can you speak English?" This is easy to understand because you can see "can". But if you use "You speak English" as a question, "Do you speak English?" right?I don't know because there is no "do" in "You speak English". " Are "You do speak English" and "do" really in the sentence? Does that mean it's abbreviated? Learning a language is very interesting.