Hello native English teachers. Queries about a long sentence. These are not the words that I used or how I said it to him, and that, you know, maybe she had seen drafts of notes, trying to obviously give an excuse as to how Linda Tripp could possibly know about my relationship with the President without me having been the one to have told her. (original) Query: Is the original grammatically correct? 1. I don't confidently understand the "or how I said it to him" , but I guess it as : or these (words) are not the words I used in the way I said it to him. Is my guess correct? another query: the exact meaning of the "it" here depends on the context, without the context we don't know what the pronoun "it" refer to.?? 2. Why is the "and that" here used?what does it means? 3. an excuse as to how Linda Tripp could possibly know about my relationship with the President = (I guess) an excuse on/about how Linda Tripp could possibly know about my relationship with the President. is my guess correct? 4. Does the "she" here refer to Linda Tripp? (I think so) 5. I understand the " without me having been the one to have told her" this way: because I was not the one (man or woman?) at all who had told Linda Tripp that I had relationship with the President. Is my guess correct?

Phrasal Verb fun!

That is my first time to go to Beijing. Is it correct?

the App Store offered more than one million apps by Apple and third parties and is ranked as the world's second largest mobile software distribution network of its kind (by number of currently available applications). There are eight generations of iPhone models, each accompanied by one of the eight major releases of iOS. (original) Question: 1. The "offered" is a main verb , and so the "is" is? 2. What does the "it" from the "of its kind" refer to? the "App store" or the "software distribution"? 3. What is the meaning of the "by number of currently available applications" ? especially the "by"? 4. Why does the original occur with the "third parties" (plural)? I think of it as the "third party"(singular)

There are lots of different names for sports shoes in English, what do you call them?

English students, try this. Topic: Talking about the future

1) Should I use the definite article in the examples below? She's going to (the) school tomorrow. (She's a teacher) He's going to (the) church tomorrow. (He's a priest) He's going to (the) daycare/university/college/prison/jail/nursery/kindergarten (He works there. He's a professor/kindergarten teacher, Etc. 2) What's the difference between in/at daycare, nursery and kindergarten? My younger brother is in daycare/nursery/kindergarten. My younger brother is at daycare/nursery/kindergarten. I feel like the first sentence implies that my younger brother generally goes to daycare/nursery/kindergarten. While the second one implies that he is at daycare/nursery/kindergarden right now (today). Is my assumption correct? 3) Let's say, that somebody wants to chat with my sister. Should I say "Sorry, she can't talk to you right now because she's at university" or "Sorry, she can't talk to you right now because she's at the university"? Which sentence makes more sense? 4) Does "I saw your mum in hospital" sound natural? I know that "in hospital" is generally used in British English.

What the expression “to cut down the middleman” mean? I found it in today’s PROPUBLICA article. The sentence goes like this: But now, Ohio has cut the middleman, directly funding the construction of private schools with taxpayer dollars. Thanks!

What's the difference between sports shows and game shows? I thought they were the same.

Depending on how they are made, Chinese teas are usually classified into six categories, namely black tea, yellow tea, green tea, black tea, white tea, and oolong tea.