New Beginning Level Dictations
Wednesday June 17, 2009
I've updated the popular beginning level dictations page with seven new dictations. Short dictations are helpful for both listening and writing practice. Each of these beginning level dictations focuses on a specific learning point such as 'at the restaurant' or 'comparisons'. The dictations include five sentences. Each sentence is read twice with time to write down the answer.
Comments
with ‘’some” and ”any”
just looked over an exercise with the following: IS THERE ANYONE WHO PLAYS TENNIS IN YOUR CLASS? Shouldn’t it be; ISN’T THERE ANYONE WHO PLAYS TENNIS IN YOUR CLASS? I’m so confused, please help…
‘Is there any …’ is the standard form. You could ask ‘Isn’t there anyone …’, but that conveys the idea that the person asking the question is frustrated by the fact that there seems to be no one who plays tennis. It’s very much a usage issue, so I would stick with the standard question form in this case.
Where we can use having . lot of persion are using the word please clearifiy .
what is the difference between “drugs” “medicine” ?
thank you.
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Simply put: A medicine is special kind of drug — one used to help the body or mind.
“Drugs” refer to chemical (or, less commonly, natural items, such as certain mushrooms and peyote) that affect the mind or body. These include medical drugs, recreational drugs, and drugs used to harm or control, scare etc. people.
“Medicine” refers to items (in essence, drugs) used to heal or help the mind or body.
While we go to a DRUGstore (in the U.S.), when we get there we ask for medicine rather than drugs. Part of the reason is that “drugs” has a bad connotation.
thank you for helping me,i got a distinction in english