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Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:57:30 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/the-use-of-than-at-the-end-of-a-sentence.html I understand that it is not correct with classic grammar to end a sentence with a preposition, but given commonly used speech, which is the correct word Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:50:36 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/use-of-by-and-with-interchangeably.html Dear Ola, I was wondering if we can use by and with interchangeably. For example, is it correct to say I learned the language with reading newspapers Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:49:43 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/pronunciation-of-the.html I have always learnt to use the /i/ when pronouncing 'the' if it's before a word starting with a vowel and to use the schwa if the following word starts Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:20:26 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/senseless-fears.html I always thought of achieving 'someday I'll become what I want to become' but keeping fears behind me get me of unusual actions. It's senseless though! Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:25:52 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/how-to-make-good-sentences.html Hey! I have trouble making good english sentences. I know a lot of vocabulary words but I don't know how to use them. This thing really goes with me: knowing Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:01:58 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/the-word-be.html Hello, Ola. I would like to ask about the word 'be'. Is there meaning itself (only)the word be? Like other words ,get, take, put. We can see in dictionary Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:01:30 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/how-do-i-get-rid-of-my-fear.html I think, I should comfort my fear, because I don't let my fear control me, I become succeed. Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:59:04 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/if-you-do-nothing-you-dont-mistake.html Lose the fear to make a mistake, don't stop to worry about the other's thinking. Trace a good plan and start. My father always said, If you do nothing Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:58:42 GMT http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/using-to-after-verb-before-object.html I would like to know why we, English speakers, use the word to after a verb such as: Can you explain to me...? And not after other verbs such as: He told Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:54:57 GMT