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wrong: All of the living creatures inizia ad imparare
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correct: All living creatures we dont use the or of the when we refer to people or things in general
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wrong: thank you again for all inizia ad imparare
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correct: thank you again for everything all is not normally used on its own as a pronoun, when used as a pronoun it is followed by a qualifier eg.: thank you again for all you have done, all im trying to do is help you all my life, all night, this is an exception, because it relates to time
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wrong: my brothers work both for inizia ad imparare
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correct: my brothers both work for Gibson Mortimer both is immediately before the main verb
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wrong: my brothers both are inizia ad imparare
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correct: my brothers are both accountants the exception is when the main verb is be
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wrong: we all have seen a road accident inizia ad imparare
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correct: we have all seen a road accident at some time in our lives when the verb phrase has two or more part eg. have seen, could describe, all, both, each normally go immediately after the first part
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wrong: he said that the money was not able to be refunded inizia ad imparare
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correct: he said that the money could not be refunded the subject of be able unable to is usually a person not a thing
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above and over can be used interchangeably when we mean ‘higher than a particular level eg. children above the age of 8, temperatures above 100 degrees centigrade
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correct: absent from work
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we use absolutely before adjectives which already contain ‘very’ as part of their meaning eg. absolutely awful, fascinating
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inizia ad imparare
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we use as to show that two actions take place at exactly the same time inizia ad imparare
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Henry came in as Philip came out. As/While I was cooking the dinner, Rubiah was having a bath.
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wrong: The accident ruined our holiday, as well as cost us a lot of money inizia ad imparare
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correct: The accident ruined our holiday, as well as costing us a lot of money when we use a verb after as well as we use the ing form
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wrong: bettica plays both the piano as well as the guitar inizia ad imparare
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correct: bettina plays both the piano and the guitar
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wrong: the ashamed look on her face inizia ad imparare
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correct: the look of shame on her face ashamed is not used before a noun
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wrong: until then, i had never considered to choose teaching as a career inizia ad imparare
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correct: until then, i had never considered choosing teaching as a career
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wrong: Not once he complained about anything inizia ad imparare
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correct: Not once did he complain about anything some adverbs/adverbials have negative meaning eg: barely, neither, never, nor, rarely, on no account, the word order changes to that of a question eg. never have I, Rarely was he in his office
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wrong: only after she had met him she knew she could trust him inizia ad imparare
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correct: only after she had met him did she know she could trust him. only + conjunction eg. only once, only if, only when, the word order in the main clause changes to that of a question
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wrong: Down the rain came, and we all ran back to the house inizia ad imparare
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correct: Down came the rain, and we all ran back to the house
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wrong: On page 3 there is an advertisement about a new video camera inizia ad imparare
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correct: on page 3 there is an advertisement for a new video camera.
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wrong: the little boy was lost and spoke in an afraid voice inizia ad imparare
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correct: the little boy was lost and spoke in a frightened voice
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wrong: After three weeks i am going back to France inizia ad imparare
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correct: In three weeks i am going back to France when we mean at the end ot, we use in not after
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wrong: The company is trying to solve its problem by reducing expenditure. (not acceptable in American) inizia ad imparare
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correct: The company are trying to solve their problem by reducing expenditure.
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wrong: The police is investigating the incident inizia ad imparare
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correct: The police are investigating the incident
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wrong: the news are always bad nowadays inizia ad imparare
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correct: the news is always bad nowadays
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wrong: some of the fruit were going bad inizia ad imparare
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correct: some of the fruit was going bad
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wrong: two thirds of the money were spent on laboratory equipment inizia ad imparare
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correct: two thirds of the money was spent on laboratory equipment the verb should agree with the noun
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wrong: every one of us were given a prize inizia ad imparare
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correct: every one of us was given a prize
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wrong: poorer countries in the region are receiving more foreign aids inizia ad imparare
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correct: poorer countries in the region are receiving more foreign aid aid means money, equipment, food, it is an uncountable noun and does not have a plural form
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wrong: the medical team has been sent with the aim to train local staff inizia ad imparare
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correct: the medical team has been sent with the aim of training local staff
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we use could when we talk about someone’s general ability eg. could swim inizia ad imparare
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when we talk about someone managing to do something on a particular occasion, we use be able or manage
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wrong: as you can know, we have only two weeks to write the report inizia ad imparare
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correct: as you may know, we have only two weeks to write the report to express possibility, we use may possible, might, possible but slightly doubtful, could, possible but doubtful, can is not used for this purpose
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we feel something is important
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look after, would you care for a chocolate, meaning: would you like...?
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wrong: i suggest that an extra lane is built to cater to cyclists inizia ad imparare
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correct: i suggest that an extra lane is built to cater for cyclists it means try to satisfy need or desires
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wrong: the chances of a newborn baby to survive are much better now inizia ad imparare
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correct: the chances of a newborn baby surviving are much better now
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