Hi everyone, How do you interpret the following sentence? I’m not sure if I understood it correctly. If I viewed “as…as…”as “the same as”, then it wouldn’t make much sense to me in this context. Perhaps I should have interpreted them separately? “Ms. Yu and others are working to keep the folk art alive, even as it evolves away from its roots as adornment for farmhouses.”

🖐🏻🖐🏿 Я знаю Украинский и Русский язык .Кто сможет попрактиковаться со мной в видео чате на изучение Английского ?

An English learner vs English articles (again) Hello italki community, Could you please help me with a tricky article (it's from the book - The Dead Mountaineer's Inn, chapter 1). "It was all completely how Zgut had told me it would be. Only I couldn’t see a(*) dog anywhere". So a man (a police inspector) arrives to the hotel that his co-worker(Zgut) recommended and described to him. He finds everything exactly as Zgut told him - the owner, the inn, the valley etc, but he could not see A dog, but why A dog? why not THE dog? It's true that the reader doesn't know anything about this dog, this is the first mention of this dog in the book, but the inspector knows about it, and he knows that there is one special dog somewhere, he looks to find it, how he can say - I couldn't see A dog anywhere? He should have said - I couldn't see THE dog anywhere, that special dog that Zgut had told me about. Or maybe in this situation both articles a and the are good? Thank you.

My relatively late-life enrollment was the result of a what Why is there an "a" before word "what" in the following sentence? I don't undestand. It's from one book. My relatively late-life enrollment was the result of a what I believed then was a misspent youth and I was atoning for the indiscretions of what I call my ‘rock star’ 20’s.

What does very interesting mean?? My online school teacher gave feedback on my assignment outline for an essay, "Very interesting, never had some one research about the fire hazards before. Looking forward to reading your essay." Is "very interesting" a negative meaning?

What does it mean "boils down" in this phrase? I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. —Aaron Swartz There's another way to say it?

Are both sentences OK? The tea is too hot, scalded my tongue. I feel numbness in my arms and feet.

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