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I wanna talk to someone in English
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1juj7j3/i_wanna_talk_to_someone_in_english/
Could you please explain to me why question #26 is B? Thank you!
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Can you tell me the essence of a word "tomboy"?
I understand (at least I think so) how "ship" works in words friendship, partnership etc. But I cannot get the role of "tom" in tomboy (surprisingly, it's quite old word, XVI century). I learnt that "tom" means male spieces of some animals. Why suddenly tomboy means a girl who acts like a boy but not a manly man? At the same time there is a word "tomfool" which means a stupid male.
12.00am means midnight?
I've seen this several times and it's starting to piss me off. I'm from Spain and we don't generally use am/pm, but when we do, we refer to midnight as 00.00 and midday as 12.00, and both count as "am". The "pm" starts at 13.00, when we start counting from 1 again (1pm). I just saw a train ticket that said 12.01am - 2.15am and was confused for a second. 12am to me is midday!! Because pm begins at 13!! Does this happen in every English-speaking country?
Is "last Monday" ambiguous?
If today is Thursday, the 13th of March, what would "last Monday" refer to? The 10th or the 3rd? Any US-UK difference?
I request you people to please dissect what the underlined sentence mean word-for-word.
The sentence sounds somewhat ungrammatical to me. It's a screenshot from some periodical discussing why Trump purposefully chose different date than 1st April for imposing reciprocal tariffs on other countries. I understand that *that's what that's not* means his serious enforcement of tariffs shouldn't lose an effect due to it sharing the day with April Fool's Day. Furthermore, is it correct to put *was* in the underlined sentence to indicate a day that will come in future. Will the natives please shed some light why the underlined sentence is correct? Also, the following is a doubt that only political news buff can help solve. How would've the US lost money just by rolling out the tariffs on the April Fool's Day which the unclear marked part suggests if I'm not wrong? Thanks as always!
Should I actually not put subtitles when I watch something?
I’ve seen so many english teacher online says about subtitles being not helpful when it comes to learning english in general. but for me I still find it difficult to understand everything what they say without subs. so I was wondering if i should stick with watching movies or youtube without subs even tho I don’t know whats happening in it or you think subs still have benefits in terms of listening comprehension
Being a non-native speaker, I can confirm this
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i’m aware people say morning instead of good morning, do you also just say evening or afternoon?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1i6rnis/im_aware_people_say_morning_instead_of_good/
Is “point percy at the porcelain” a common idiom in the states?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hzuanf/is_point_percy_at_the_porcelain_a_common_idiom_in/