By Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is although versus while. I often have to tell people that their pet peeves aren't actually hard-and-fast grammar rules. I have to tell people that it's OK to split infinitives, and that in some cases it's fine to end

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 21 September 2006 Nepal Maoist affiliated students union activists gather to demand date for constituent assembly elections in Katmandu, September 18, 2006 The United Nations in Nepal is calling for greater accountability

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全世界的父母都会对自己的孩子宠爱有加,甚至有些会越俎代庖替孩子处理很多事务。为了让新生尽快开始独立生活,美国一所大学特意为他们举办了一个正式的父母告别仪式,仪式结束后,

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By Jane Chambers Santiago 12 December 2006 Family and friends of former Chilean military leader Augusto Pinochet have paid tribute to the late general at a funeral in Santiago. Pinochet died Sunday afternoon after suffering a heart attack. From Sant

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今天我们要学的词是responsible。 Responsible, 有事发原因的意思。 Firefighters believe that vagrants were responsible for the downtown fire, 消防队员认为,市中心大火的肇事者是居无定所的游民。 最新研究发现

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LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft Corp. unveiled Monday a family of tablets dubbed Surface, built on Windows 8, at an event in Los Angeles. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer introduced the company's Surface family of tablets. The devic

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