Submitted by AdamJK on 22 April, 2013 - 23:07. Poland
Hello Linodip,
We decided to keep the versions of Word on the Street on the website short and so not all the sections were included. Seat on the Street is one that wasn't.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
Submitted by Manh Jony on 22 February, 2013 - 08:09. Vietnam
Hi!
I have learning E for seven years in school. But almost time we learn grammar. And until now I can't speaking E as well. I think that this website is very fantastic and helpful. I hope it would have more conversation to introduce culture of English. That's the big change to learn E. So Thank you very much indeed. And I pay tribute to your team!
Best regard!
Submitted by Stephen Jones on 28 February, 2012 - 11:53. United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Hello kalpana,
Thanks for your question. We use this expression to show that we are unfamiliar with a lot of what is in front of us. So when Ashlie says it, she is saying that she doesn't know what a lot of the fruit and other ingredients on sale in Chinatown are - she's probably never seen or used them before!
Submitted by AdamJK on 2 January, 2012 - 23:43. Poland
Hi Andranik, 'Why' is always a difficult question with grammar! Language is not perfectly logical and there is not always agreement among linguists about reasons for structures.
In this case, I would say that the fundamental thing that the past tense expresses in English is distance. That can be distance in time (past time) or distance in reality (imaginary situations). Distance is also an element of politeness and that is why using the past tense adds to the politeness of a sentence.
I hope that helps - you can find some more about the past tense in our grammar section and some examples of how past modals are more polite as well.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
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hello!
I was looking for Seat on the street videos, but there isn't any. Why?
team
Hello Linodip,
We decided to keep the versions of Word on the Street on the website short and so not all the sections were included. Seat on the Street is one that wasn't.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi!
I have learning E for seven years in school. But almost time we learn grammar. And until now I can't speaking E as well. I think that this website is very fantastic and helpful. I hope it would have more conversation to introduce culture of English. That's the big change to learn E. So Thank you very much indeed. And I pay tribute to your team!
Best regard!
hi everyone.
I am a new coming.
nice to meet you.
Hi,
could someone tall what's the mean of "I don't even know what half of this stuff is"?
thank you very much,
kalpana
team
Hello kalpana,
Thanks for your question. We use this expression to show that we are unfamiliar with a lot of what is in front of us. So when Ashlie says it, she is saying that she doesn't know what a lot of the fruit and other ingredients on sale in Chinatown are - she's probably never seen or used them before!
Regards,
Stephen Jones
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi! I have some question about this conversation. Why for polite we use past tens? For example:
team
Hi Andranik,
'Why' is always a difficult question with grammar! Language is not perfectly logical and there is not always agreement among linguists about reasons for structures.
In this case, I would say that the fundamental thing that the past tense expresses in English is distance. That can be distance in time (past time) or distance in reality (imaginary situations). Distance is also an element of politeness and that is why using the past tense adds to the politeness of a sentence.
I hope that helps - you can find some more about the past tense in our grammar section and some examples of how past modals are more polite as well.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
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why are there no audios for series big meal?
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