在一篇英语习作中看到：The hotel provides hot and cold water all day.我对其中的hot and cold water 有疑问：它要表达的意思应该是“冷水”和“热水”，即既供应“冷水”也供应“热水”，但hot and cold water（冷热水）给人的感觉是一种水—...
... was standing by his rosebush when an uncle came to tell me that my grandfather had died. RememberingGrandpa's words, I reached deep within me for those special feelings that had made up our friendship. Suddenly, and truly, I knew what he had meant about never sayinggoodbye—about refusing to...
前面有网友提了一个问题, 是关于 thank 用法的:http://ask.yygrammar.com/q-34705.html我觉得其中大多数问题都涉及祈使句中thank后面能不能接第三人称的问题。比如：Thank him for telling me the news.Thank Mr Wang for helping me.这样的句子对吗？
... her, "will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working? “琼珊，亲爱的，”苏艾弯着身子 对她说，“你能不能答应我，在我画完之前，别睁开眼睛，别瞧窗外？请问老师： be done doing 是什么...
...h I consider no one else in our family.no one else后应该加to be.She is the perfect accountant，which I don’t consider her predecessor. 句末应该加to be.”我的疑问：以上几个句子为什么必须加to be?
...你中有我我中有你，使人傻傻分不清楚，如He
lives on/off the Park Avenue.还有on和away都可以表示“继续下去”；最后即使把某个介词所有释义都搞明白了，在阅读中也经常出现无法解释的短语，如call
on sb/call on sb to do sth拜访某人/号...
...这句摘自高中英语新教材人教版必修一 p2：Max meets Amy in
the dining hall. Listen to Conversation 1 and tick Max's favourite subject and
Amy's favourite subject.这里的Conversation 1,
Conversation 的意思我清楚，它表示“会话一”。我请教的内容有二：第一，...
The library ______for more than 60 years since it _____ in 1940.
A. has been open; opened
B. has been opened; opened
C. has opened; was open
D. has been open; was open
正确答案为A。但 D 为何不可以呢？有资料说，当 since 引导的状语从句的谓语动词是延续性...
...常是在前后用逗号隔开，但下面这个句子用的是破折号：The tall building over there—which cost 300 million yuan to build—has been empty for a long time. 那边的那栋高楼，就是花费了3亿元的那一栋，已经空置很长时间了。请问老师：非限制性定...
...目：
Her birthday was a week ago, so it _______ (can't / be ) on the 25th.
A. can't be B. can't have been
我不太明白25日是说话之后的日子，还是之前，所以不知道应该用对过去的推测，还是对现在的推测。请专家指教，谢...
He had been in enough briefings over the years. 这种简要介绍他听过多年啦。Have you ordered in enough envelopes this month? 这月你订足信封了吗 ?怎么感觉 in enough sth 像个词组似的，但是查不到？