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Brief Report: Question-Asking and Collateral Language Acquisition in Children with Autism

Callier Library wrote 2 days ago: Abstract The literature suggests children with autism use communication primarily for requests and p … more →

Tags: Research, Autism, language, initiations, question asking

Edaxicon Makes Bid to Acquire Dutch

escher dax wrote 3 days ago: Nobody’s been using Latin much — at least not for a couple hundred years — so the Britis … more →

Tags: DAX, Latin, Rules, Grammar, language, Infinitives, Dutch, Romans

hold + up

starodubtsevss wrote 6 days ago: hold  up грабить; обирать; выставлять, показывать to hold up a bank — ограбить банк to hold up to de … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, up, Hold

English Grammar - What are 'Parts of Speech'?

sks8 wrote 1 week ago: English is a extremely beautiful and flexible language. A word meaning is derived from how it is use … more →

Tags: General, languages, English, Trademark, English language, Lexical category, Grammar, Parts of Speech, Adjective

With what to end a sentence?4 comments

garydenness wrote 1 week ago: The Miguel Cotto v Manny Pacquiao fight this weekend wouldn’t have attracted much attention fr … more →

Tags: Grammar, Churchill, grammar rules

Question on Education

Melanie wrote 1 week ago: My students seem to have issues with prepositions. Here in Utah in particular, there is confusion co … more →

Tags: Education, Students, Wrong Words

wash + something + down

starodubtsevss wrote 1 week ago: wash (something) down – запивать (еду, лекарство водой, вином и т.п.) … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, Wash, down

turn + into

starodubtsevss wrote 1 week ago: turn into – обращаться, превращаться … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, Into, Turn

Prepositions2 comments

Gail Tycer wrote 2 weeks ago: A preposition is a connecting word that shows the relationship between words in a sentence, and elab … more →

Tags: Business writing, Comprehension, writing, Communication, Business, Grammar

burn + out

starodubtsevss wrote 2 weeks ago: burn out – ощущать эмоциональное, физическое и психическое истощение в результате постоянного … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, OUT, Burn

Frequent Mistakes 2009

Eva Suárez wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s curious, but every year I see that different students tend to make the same mistakes over … more →

Tags: ESL, Intermedio 2

flow + out

starodubtsevss wrote 2 weeks ago: flow out – (фраз. гл.) тратиться в больших количествах (о средствах) … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, OUT, Flow

turn + out

starodubtsevss wrote 3 weeks ago: turn out - стать, сделаться; оказаться; выворачивать наружу; вставать (с постели) Чтобы запомнить: … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, OUT, Turn

in + advance

starodubtsevss wrote 3 weeks ago: in advance – заблаговременно, заранее advance 1. сущ. 1) общ. прогресс; улучшение, успех, дост … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, In, Advance

stand + over

starodubtsevss wrote 3 weeks ago: stand over – оставаться нерешённым; быть отложенным, отсроченным (фраз. гл.) … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, STAND, over

stand + out

starodubtsevss wrote 3 weeks ago: stand out – быть заметным, выделяться, выступать … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, OUT, STAND

Prescribed spatial prepositions influence how we think about time

Callier Library wrote 3 weeks ago: Prepositions combine with nouns flexibly when describing concrete locative relations (e.g. at/on/in … more →

Tags: Research, Language and Thought, Semantics and grammar, Space and Time

talk + into

starodubtsevss wrote 3 weeks ago: to talk into – to persuade to by talking – убеждать … more →

Tags: use of prepositions, talk, Into

Prepositions (and the ends of sentences)

Deborah wrote 3 weeks ago: Hmm. This is an old chestnut surrounded by myth and legend. People who know nothing about grammar re … more →

Tags: 2. Plain and simple - good writing guide, Grammar, Writing Guide