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One tip I was given many many years ago for those confusing words was............... when in doubt, read it out aloud (or say it silently with lips moving, or read it in your head). One way will sound more correct than the other.

That is the one to use.

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Then I sat down and thought about it and decided I'd rather have a coffee than a tea :)
A noun is a naming word (the name of a thing - such as a computer). A proper noun is somebody's name or the name of a place and starts with a capital letter :)
Oooo I just found this website.. might be of help, they seem to explain things quite well.
https://www.grammar-monster.com/less...rent_types.htm

I think you write very well JS and I agree with you, I can't see why you need to know the difference between the 5 different types of pronouns in order to do a job!

Good luck, all you can do is to try your best! :D

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Also, is it American English, Canadian English or English English? :lol: I don't mean just the spelling or different word use like rubber and sidewalk..

In newspaper headlines I see commas where I'd not expect to see them.
Sometimes I see that instead of than - or is it t'other way around?
I'm surprised every time I hear someone on the radio or in the paper say that snow or rain is forecasted for tomorrow instead of forecast. :unsure:

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In the States, we were taught a verb is an "action" word. With a Catholic elementary school background, yes, we did the deconstruction of a sentence, having to know each word and it's place in the sentence and its properly name. Of course, I passed but for the life of me I've never had to diagram a sentence since, nor will I ever at this age.

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Canadian colleges seem to love to add unnecessary requirements to get job training. Not like I am going for an academic education, its specific training for a specific kind of job.

In BC its 16-20 weeks of training and cost depending on school is: (both are public schools, neither are private for profit seen on TV type schools.)
$4,600 and student loan eligible.
$10,053 and not student loan eligible.

In California at a public community college it is a 26 week full-time program with a cost of $800 USD.

Boy do we ever get ripped off when it comes to short term training for better job here.

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Flight was supposed to go to Germany, but went to Edinburgh instead, seems to be a paper work snafu.

BA City flyer marketed flight being operated by WDL Aviation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...box=1553527304

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Me too. Small world.

Yup yeah yes, probably the most irregular and complicated.

That is a very useful tip.

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As mentioned elsewhere I'm currently learning Dutch using a mix of one-on-one lessons backed with a couple online courses. My teacher just rolls here eyes when she tries to explain the grammar principles to me - in English! - and I have to quickly work out if she's on about a "doing" word or a "describing" word or something else completely :confused:

My current template for statements - questions are a whole new ball game/different kettle of fish :unsure: - looks something like this:

Subject – main verb – (specific object) – (time) – (non specific object) – (other tricky stuff) – location – (subordinate verb/clause)

A work in progress :eek:

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For about 5 years in grammar school, I was taking English literature, English language, French and German. All of them required learning, knowing (different from learning!), explaining and defining grammar principles.

On some days, the lessons would follow in succession ............ little wonder that my (our!) heads were spinning at the end of the day!!!

I always found French the most difficult, both written and spoken

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Finally! Scheduled to be delivered into our US mailbox is hubby's NR-? from Canada so that we can file our US tax return which is due by April15th. Never had to wait this long for the paperwork to be mailed and received. But thankful that it has finally come.

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Had a hearing and vision test today for a possible job.

Hearing was better then I expected, not normal but not abnormal, but in the range expected of someone who has spent years working in a noisy environment. Your not going to work around aircraft for years and come out without some hearing damage, even with hearing protection there will be some damage done.

Vision was okay, just one of those basic tests, but seems I may need to go see an eye doctor, no problem with both eyes, cover right eye no issue, cover left eye, hard to read those letters, didn't get very down, and everything is blurry, but I see fine with both eyes so never noticed I was having issues in one eye but apparently I am.

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Your good eye is making up for the less good one.

Ever sit at your computer with a drink? Take a sip while reading the screen with the cup in your left hand and then do the same with it in your right. See a difference?

Obviously you can do the same just covering one eye at a time but taking a sip of a drink is a natural movement when you may discover the difference yourself.

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Sometimes airlines offer most unusual routings, and this one isn't even a good deal at $1,100 one way.

LAX - ORD AA 296 321-Airbus A321 Wi-Fi on-boardPower on-board
ORD - PHX AA 1827 321-Airbus A321 Wi-Fi on-board
PHX - OGG AA 432 752-Boeing 757

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Fire alarm went off in the building.

No fire though.

Will say fire department responds quickly usually here within 3-5 minutes from when the alarm goes off.

Dog is scared, poor thing hates the fire alarm.

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I am sure ours would as well if we had a basement.

They test the system monthly so she had to go through it at least once a month for a few minutes, but when the alarm is actually going off its non-stop until the fire department arrives and searches the area, the last thing they do before leaving is turn the alarm off.

There is a chain coffee shop, a discount retailer, and a restaurant in the commercial spaces and surprised how few people actually left the those places, took the fire department going in and asking them to vacate, people simply do not listen to fire alarms. Granted there was no fire, but never know when a false alarm will be a real fire.