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Singular “their”.

“The people forgot to feed their cat”. That’s a normal use for the word “their”. “Their cat sleeps a lot”. They have a cat. They cat sleeps. Sometimes we use their to refer to a singular. For example: “Somebody forgot their phone at my house”. We do that because we don’t know who left the…

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Question words, part 2.

Remember, you will also hear humans ask confirming questions. “You do like pizza, don’t you?” This is a way of checking with someone if they like something, or if a situation is OK. Sometimes, people see this as “leading question”, which means they’re pretty sure you like something or are OK with it. Again: “You…

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Question words.

Flash asked me if i wanted to do a lesson this week. As usual, he gave me no ideas, so I thought I would review forming a question. For those of you taking standard English tests, this is an important thing to remember. Always start a question with a question word: What, How, Who, Where,…

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If that…..

“Humans sleep 7 hours each night, if that”. “If that” is a way of emphasizing a small amount or number. So that sentence is a way I would tell you that I don’t think people sleep very much, and probably not enough. “There were 10 people at the party, if that”. This means there were…