- Conversation Questions for the ESL EFL Classroom (I-TESL-J)
Conversation Questions for the ESL EFL Classroom A Project of The Internet TESL Journal If this is your first time here, then read the Teacher's Guide to Using These Pages If you can think of a good question for any list, please send it to us
- prepositions - on question 1 or in question 1 - English Language . . .
The word "in" fits better meaning "occurring in question 1", or in its answer, if that is what is meant The comments would be understood with either "on" or "in", though Since you've invited rewording, these might work: For question 1, you repeated the example as a sentence In your answers to questions 2 and 3, you used the wrong verb tense
- Asking a question: DO or ARE? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Are you liking Chinese food? is probably never idiomatic outside of "Indian English", but Do you go to Spain next week? can certainly be perfectly natural in some contexts (for example, with you emphasised, within a conversation where it's already been mentioned that some [other] people are indeed going to Spain next week)
- What is the difference between S and S?
What is the difference between S' and 'S? Ask Question Asked 11 years, 4 months ago Modified 6 years, 5 months ago Viewed 761k times
- iteslj. org - Whats the Question? (Games Activities for the ESL EFL . . .
Explain the game, with a few examples of answers in search of questions Ask, 'What's the question?', and get students to correctly say the corresponding questions for your answer
- IS or IS THAT would be grammatically correct?
You are correct in that your example sentence 'The problem with your grade is, you are the person who can fix it ' is not proper English; it should be instead something like 'The problem with your grade is that you are the (only) person who can fix it ' There are many sentences in English like this where popular or common usage (usually spoken) English will vary from the 'proper rules' of
- word usage - The question is that vs. The question is - English . . .
The question is, is "complete list" also idiomatic? In another post ("to write things with" vs "to write things"), I said The question is that, is it more idiomatic or natural when using the preposition with? I've also found lots of people use these expressions I guess both are " that " clause, the former omits the word "that"
- How to say the answer to your question is: shortly
I thought of: "The answer to your question is X", or "About your question, the answer is X", but this sounds too cumbersome I am sure I heard a shorter phrase for presenting an answer to a question
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