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Alend.leo Posted 13 years ago
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When I started to tell the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look.
When I started telling the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look.

what is the difference between them?

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I cannot understand and know how the students obey their teacher.

Here in his sentence i want to apply the negative (not) to both of verbs ( understand, know), how can i do this?
I want to say (not understand and not know ) what is a correct structure for this?

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I did not drink tea, nor juice, nor water and nor soda.

how can i arrange serial of things (like drinkings) with negative, means I do not drink them, I cant arrange the comma and the negative article (nor), do i have to repeat the (nor) with every drink?
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So I walked back to where he was at and gave him my lunch from work

During a visit at university

why (at) is written ? can we omit it?

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If he was do that for politics essay, then he would more then certainly fail.

is that question correct grammatically ?
  

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leo When I started to tell the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look. When I started telling the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look. what is the difference between them?

  • leo When I started to tell the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look.
  • When I started telling the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look.
  • what is the difference between them?
  • Hi, Some verbs can be followed by the -ing form or the infinitive without a big change in meaning: begin, continue, hate, intend, like, love, prefer, propose, start.
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alend.leoWhen I started to tell the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look.
When I started telling the story, Carol gave me a really dirty look. what is the difference between them?
Hi,
Some verbs can be followed by the -ing form or the infinitive without a big change in meaning: begin, continue, hate, intend, like,
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I cannot understand or know how the students obey their teacher.
I did not drink tea, juice, water or soda.
So I walked back to where he was and gave him my lunch from work (no 'at')
During a visit to the university
If he were to do that for his politics essay, then he would certainly fail.

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