When I was in middle school, my social studies
teacher asked me to enter a writing contest, I said no without thinking. I did
not love writing. My family came from Brazil, so English was only my
second language. Writing was so difficult and painful for me that my teacher had allowed me to present
my...
...说来，表示方式的状语应该是修饰动词吧。比如：
Stop acting like a spoilt child. 不要表现得像个被宠坏的孩子一样。
His old teacher greeted him like a long-lost brother. 以前的老师和他见面时就像失散多年的兄弟一样。
He was so tired aft...
1，They offered me free accommodation for a year, and that decided me. 为什么是a year而不是one year？另外，that decided me这句的意思应该是（前半句）使我下决心，而查了有道，decide的用法都是决定某事/做某事，而没有“使...决定/下决心”，不...
Sylvia regularly took acrowded subway train to work during rushhour, so she found it to be a paradox one hot, steamy Tuesday to easily find a seat in acar that was nearly empty. 请教各位老师，paradox后面需要不需要加逗号儿？我认为是最好不加。
She says the boat
would be shaped like acapsule, powered by a small nuclear engine, and though
there would be no sail, it would have a mast to hold acamera.这里的第二小句and though是什么用法呢？为什么第三小句的句首没有连接词and等呢？
Only 0.8% of married couples where the stay-at-home father was out of the labor force for a year.疑问：此处的where the stay-at-home father是个句子吗？不是句子的话，where又是什么词性以及有什么含义？有些想不明白以下是有关此句的上下文：The endless deba...
Some
of my acquaintances in the country come up to town once or twice a year to
visit the theatre as a special treat. For them this is a major operation which
involves considerable planning. As the play draws to its close, they wonder
whether they will ever catch that last train home. The cit dwelle...
The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful.It doesn’t help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to assert themselves.红色部分的是主从复合句对吗？即that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbo...
a metallic surface = a surface like that of metal显然，这里的that=the surface, 对吗？可是为什么不能用one代替a surface，即a surface like one of metal 呢？或者我的疑问是为什么这里要用that=the surface特指呢？
It
is terrible. The cat miaowed a lot at night recently. It sounds like a baby
crying.这句话，我有2个疑问：1)
The cat has been miaowing at lot at night recently - 改成这样才更合理？2)
It sounds like a baby crying. - 介词like后面应该是一个名词性质的词组，所以如...
When referring to the moon
specifically, a blue moon is the second of two full moons in a given month. 请问老师：When referring to the moon specifically省略了什么？能否还原为两种形式：1 When (a blue moon is) referring to the moon specifically2 When a blue moon refers to the moon...
请教曹老师：In
1963 a Lancaster bomber crashed on Wallis Island, a remote place in the South
Pacific, a long way west of Samoa.
The plane wasn't too badly damaged,
but over the years, the crash was
forgotten and the wreck remained undisturbed. Then in 1989, twenty-six
years after the crash, th...