Message Area
Casually read the BBS message area using an easy to use interface. Messages are categorized exactly like they are on the BBS. You may post new messages or reply to existing messages!

You are not logged in. Login here for full access privileges.

Previous Message | Next Message | Back to English Tutoring for Students of...  <--  <--- Return to Home Page
   Networked Database  English Tutoring for Students of...   [848 / 900] RSS
 From   To   Subject   Date/Time 
Message   Alexander Koryagin    Ardith Hinton   Women don't like rain   July 1, 2019
 4:36 PM *  

Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 29.06.2019 16:24

 AK>> When a person is in a company of friends he never speaks formally.
 AK>> And he should not to. It is too loathsome, IMHO.

 AS>> Correction: "should not" or "ought not to" (depending on what you
 AS>> mean).

 AK>> Is it true, Ardith? Can I replace "speak" for "to"?

 AH> I agree with Anton that "to" as you used it here doesn't work. IMHO
 AH> what he's suggesting is that if you don't want to overuse the
 AH> verb "speak" you could correctly say "he should not (do so)" or "he
 AH> ought not to (do so)".

I meant something like this:
-----Beginning of the citation-----
"Instead of which," I said, "in a month's time I take the most important
examination of my career."

"I should advise you not to." (Ch. Snow)
----- The end of the citation -----

I.e. the main idea (I take the most important examination) was replaced by
"to", so that to be shorter.

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2019

---
 * Origin: nntps://fidonews.mine.nu - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/6.0)
  Show ANSI Codes | Hide BBCodes | Show Color Codes | Hide Encoding | Hide HTML Tags | Show Routing
Previous Message | Next Message | Back to English Tutoring for Students of...  <--  <--- Return to Home Page

VADV-PHP
Execution Time: 0.0907 seconds

If you experience any problems with this website or need help, contact the webmaster.
VADV-PHP Copyright © 2002-2024 Steve Winn, Aspect Technologies. All Rights Reserved.
Virtual Advanced Copyright © 1995-1997 Roland De Graaf.
v2.0.140505

Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_87qq31mgkalv8ft7cbs24vtlh1, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: session_start(): open(c:\Sessions\sess_87qq31mgkalv8ft7cbs24vtlh1, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in D:\wc5\http\public\VADV\include\common.inc.php on line 45 PHP Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_87qq31mgkalv8ft7cbs24vtlh1, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0