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I teach English for Academic Purposes at Humber College.


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May
8
answered Are there any variations on nouns ending with an -al suffix?
May
7
comment Punctuation between 'like' and a list
changed to the more general conjunction
May
7
revised Punctuation between 'like' and a list
change *and* to *conjunction*
May
7
answered Punctuation between 'like' and a list
May
4
answered What words are similar in meaning to “monosyllabic” or “disyllabic”, but refer to the letters and not the sounds?
May
2
comment Why do you say “so do I”?
And that is why it is not related to the issue of "fronted adverbials."
Apr
29
comment A word for when you only understand a language in its written form
But it shows all the sister terms for literate. If there were a word, it should be there.
Apr
29
answered A word for when you only understand a language in its written form
Apr
27
answered Term used for the number of items in a singular or plural noun or sentence
Apr
26
answered What does “catch it on the chin” mean?
Apr
25
revised “Available jobs to/for them”
added 71 characters in body
Apr
25
answered “Available jobs to/for them”
Apr
24
answered Omission of “to” with deontic “have to”
Apr
24
comment British English - “In two hours time”
In the Corpus of current American English, the frame [in x minute (') time] has a frequency of about 0.08 per million words in the Fiction subcorpus, where it is most common. In the British National Corpus, it's about 0.50 per million words in the spoken subcorpus. This suggests that it's rare in both dialects, but less common in American English.
Apr
24
answered Is comma needed before “and” in two connecting clauses?