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There are two ways of expressing ability in English. One, can or could. Two, be able to. In negative sentences, theres no difference in meaning. So, I couldnt lift the piano and I wasnt able to lift the piano mean the same thing. However, in affirmat

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on how different vowel lengths are used to differentiate words ending in voiced and voiceless consonants. Lets take an example. Theres something in my eyes. Theres something in my ice. The last

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on using or omitting the English article a correctly.今天的主题是a这个冠词的使用 Theres no single rule that explains how to choose whether you should use a, use the or not use any

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is to be aware of how some verbs in English, transitive verbs, require an object. Not using an object after a transitive verb is a common mistake made by learners of English. For example, although

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on sound linking. Remember that although written English has spaces between every word, spoken English doesnt have pauses after every word. As a matter of fact, long strings of words are all li

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on how to distinguish the numbers 13, 30, 14, 40 ,15, 50,and so on. Theres often a lot of confusion when people use these words. People often have to ask, Did you say 16 or 60? If you look at t

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on how syllable stress can affect the meaning of words. Remenber that stressed syllables are said louder and are lengthened, and unstressed syllables are pronounced more softly, and often have

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pronunciation of the letter t. Of course the letter t is usually pounced t. But you may have noticed that in fluent speech, native speakers sometimes pronounced the t as d. That happens when the t comes between two voiced sounds. Do you know what sou

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Although auxiliary verbs are not usually stressed, when we want to strongly emphasize a verb, we stress the auxiliary verb. And if theres no auxiliary verb, we add one. These sentences are called emphatic sentences. For example, compare the sentences

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In English, Yes is always followed by affirmative statements. No is always followed by negative statements. This means you cant say, Yes, I havent eaten dinner yet. Or No, I did my home work. Chinese allows this, but English does not. Therere differe

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on the difference in meaning between remember doing something and remember to do something. Lets take an example. Whats the difference between I remember locking the door and I remember to lock

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on the difference in meaning between forget doing something and forget to do something. Lets take an example. Whats the difference between I will never forget to lock the door and I will never

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Lets take an example. Whats the difference between I regret to tell you that your father died and I regret telling you that your father died? Well, I regret to tell, I regret to say are used to inform someone of bad news in a polite way. Before you t

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try plus an infinitive, that is, to plus a verb, such as try to learn try to open try to read means to make an effort to do it. try plus a gerund, that is, verb-ing, such as try opening, try turning on, try giving means to experiment with a new or di

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Every student of English has my sympathy in his struggles with the English articles. They are one of the most difficult parts of learning English. First of all, I urge you to do this. Listen to native speakers. When you listen, listen carefully, sinc

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If you listen to previous daily tips, you will recall that content words, such as nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs are normally stressed, and function words, such as personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and prepositions are normally not

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In a previous tip, I mentioned how in long sentences, it is necessary to pause between thought groups. However, relatively short sentences may also require pauses to help the listeners organize the stream of sounds correctly. Lets look at some exampl

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Lets take an example. In the sentence My sister who lives in San Francisco is a doctor, the adjective clause is who lives in San Francisco. It describes my sister. Theres no pause before the adjective clause. So, it means that I have more than one si

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Remember that intonation is the rising and falling of the pitch of your voice. So shes here. is a statement, but shes here? is a question. But it isnt true that all questions have a rising intonation. Today, lets just look at the intonation of three

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Tag questions are used in two very different ways, and the difference depends on whether you use a rising or falling pitch at the end of the tag question. One way tag questions are used is to get your listener to agree with you about something you th