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Questions which necessitate your correction.
Hello there. Only today I opened for myself this wonderful section on the site (I'm on it a few days). I think it's more convenient than 'questions' since unresolved ones have no chance to be bumped and often they are getting flooded by new ones. I got 4 questions and I'd like to get some explanations. (All links imply videos on youtube, therefore text above means quotes from them.) Thanks in advice. I hope I'm not too much confusing you. :-)
1) - Hate this pathetic [...].
http://tinyurl.com/y3ths6r3
Sorry, it has a little unfriendly bit.
2) - The Coffee Bean. I was supposed to meet Alisa Silver there for dinner. 'I lost' Mary Jane because of my web-slinging.
http://tinyurl.com/y6zlv75p
A perfect opportunity for using of past perfect tense (I'd lost), but he doesn't, does he? If so, why?
3) - I will keep my promise and [...] right now.
http://tinyurl.com/y4g9gh5e
4) - Meet me in the lobby of the Hotel Seville in twenty minutes.
- We'll lay a trap for him [in] the neogenics lab [of] ESU.
I wonder if the second sentense is grammatically right and may be alternatives here?
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Questo contenuto viola le linee guida della Comunità.18 marzo 2019
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Questo contenuto viola le linee guida della Comunità.17 marzo 2019
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An unintelligible speech & a couple of questions
Please, give a hand the non-native speaker to fill up missing parts. That's what I've got:
1) A French speech (I've been mistaken in thinking that it was English)
- Aargh! [...]? Hey, Afonso! [...]. Tout suite!
- Okay, okay. I'll check it out.
http://tinyurl.com/y2lnvqxa
2) - The Kingpin promised the world, but he ain't delivered. (solved)
http://tinyurl.com/y4hhprg7
+ I recently saw a post on an english forum from a native-speaker something like this: 'you said you ain't have'...
"Ain't" is "didn't" in these cases, isn't it? Don't you think that using of 'ain't' has gone too far?
3) - What are you talking about? (solved)
- S'matter? You've been asleep the past 24 hours?
http://tinyurl.com/yymeh2vq
Please, confirm or fix the second line.
I adore slang contractions like 's'matter', but I'm confusing them with something else when I'm hearing 'em. How do I learn myself to hear words/sentences as accurate as possible?
4) (solved)
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Questions about modal verbs, pronunciation, tense
1) Using of modal verbs together.
a) shouldn't need b) wouldn't dare. c)...
What forms are there else? And instances when I can use them, in short?
2) Pronunciation of 't' like 'd'?
I mean when I'm watching shows sometimes I notice words like 'item' sound nonstandard. I'd like to read something about consonants which sound different in American English.
3) - Insolent to the end, eh?
An idiomatic expression or something like this kind that has no question mark/segment (any form of 'be', pronoun etc), but interjection/intonation/some element. I must be enlightened about these cases.
4) Using of past tense in present.
http://tinyurl.com/y6k879kb
- Shh. I thought I heard something.
Why not say "I think I heard something" instead?
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Questo contenuto viola le linee guida della Comunità.15 marzo 2019
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Idiom: Acronym or Pig-Latin?
I remember how I almost broke my brain when I was trying to decypher what Liz is saying in this dialogue. But now I'm convinced there's some kind of acronym rather than pig-latin. Maybe both. You guys are my last hope to sort out the things.
- M.J., phone for you. And make it [...], or my boss will "ill-k" me.
- Thanks, Liz. --Back in a sec.
https://instaud.io/3qmt
https://www60.zippyshare.com/v/2i2KMRZy/file.html
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An interjection (audio)
Hi, all. I'm Dmitry. I'm new here, and I'm a big fun of several movies/shows on english, and I wanna know as much as possible about your language. Please, help me with my first question.
What exactly kind of interjection are women saying on audio?
My guess is "wye"? I've read about "wye-aye", but I aren't sure if it's here in these cases.
https://instaud.io/3qlb
- Morning, dear, I'm sorry, I let you sleep like that, but you really must have needed it.
- Sleep like what?
- Wye. You've slept all day yesterday and all night.
https://instaud.io/3ql3
- Mr. Toomes told me you were intelligent, Mrs. Whitman. He forgot to tell me, you were beautiful as well.
- Wye, thank you, Mr. Avis.
- Please, call me Arthur.
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