I also think it's good to have a universal language for communication. But that mustn't impech ourselve to learn other languages !Of course, especially when we know how enriching and valuable it is to learn different languages… 🙂
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Enriching ? are you sure ?
Errr, yeah "enriching"… Is that so strange ? 🙄
Yes i Know it! I will see it !
Empech… To prevent someone from (+ving)
for exemple:
He told me to stay hat home in order to prevent me from seing this girl!
Empech… To prevent someone from (+ving)
for exemple:
He told me to stay hat home in order to prevent me from seing this girl!
Jichou a écrit :Empech… To prevent (+ving)Sorry, Jichou, but empech does not existe in English.
for exemple:
He told me to stay hat home in order to prevent me from seing this girl!
The nearest words I can find are 'Impeach' (a legal term) and 'impede' = donner un croche pied (métaphore).
What is the meaning of (+ving) ? progressive form ? why the “V” ?
Hadjer, thanks for enrich, enriching, I'd not knox this verb
Hadjer, thanks for enrich, enriching, I'd not knox this verb
I thnink jichou was trying to say a Gerund or a Gerundive (a verbal form which takes the place of a noun) = verb ending in '-ing'
Hadjer, thanks for enrich, enriching, I'd not knox this verbHéhé, you're welcome… I own : we've seen this word in class just for days… 😉
JSC this is what i said! I said we don't have to say Empech but to prevent someone from + Ving (yes it's gerund like in the exemple)Jichou a écrit :Empech… To prevent (+ving)Sorry, Jichou, but empech does not existe in English.
for exemple:
He told me to stay hat home in order to prevent me from seing this girl!
The nearest words I can find are 'Impeach' (a legal term) and 'impede' = donner un croche pied (métaphore).
JSC, thanks for your explanation of +ing 🙂
Hadger, sorry, I did suche a mistake 😞 I know this verb, evidly
Jichou, for example, I prevent you from mistaking 🙂
Hadger, sorry, I did suche a mistake 😞 I know this verb, evidly
Jichou, for example, I prevent you from mistaking 🙂
Yees!! I know it! My favorous exemple I kiss you in order to prevent you from saying him "I love you" ( I read it in a book after it was writen:
Peny, I love you, I love you since the day i saw you and i Know you love me to, please tell me you love me and say him goodbye!)
Peny, I love you, I love you since the day i saw you and i Know you love me to, please tell me you love me and say him goodbye!)
Jichou, I had a double problem in reading your expression.
I think people probably say "prevent someone from doing something", but the Collins dictionary meaning of "prevent" is (transitive verb) to keep from happening. So prevent from = keep fromfrom…. euh?A double preposition?
I prefer "My father prevented my* seeing my girlfriend" or "My father kept me from seeing my girlfriend" (if you don't like to use 'my' twice in such a short space of time).
* When I was at school, the gerund was most often preceeded by a possessive pronoun than by a personal pronoun. I should not have appreciated (although again it is very common in speech) "My father prevented me seeing my girlfriend", which seems to be a contraction of the two forms in the last paragraph.
So in your last message, it should be (in written English) 'I kiss you in order to prevent your **saying to him, "I love you" '
(**say to = tell)
Kissing someone in order to shut him (or her) up seems a pretty good idea. I can think of lots of girls I would prefer to be quieter. 🙂
I think people probably say "prevent someone from doing something", but the Collins dictionary meaning of "prevent" is (transitive verb) to keep from happening. So prevent from = keep fromfrom…. euh?A double preposition?
I prefer "My father prevented my* seeing my girlfriend" or "My father kept me from seeing my girlfriend" (if you don't like to use 'my' twice in such a short space of time).
* When I was at school, the gerund was most often preceeded by a possessive pronoun than by a personal pronoun. I should not have appreciated (although again it is very common in speech) "My father prevented me seeing my girlfriend", which seems to be a contraction of the two forms in the last paragraph.
So in your last message, it should be (in written English) 'I kiss you in order to prevent your **saying to him, "I love you" '
(**say to = tell)
Kissing someone in order to shut him (or her) up seems a pretty good idea. I can think of lots of girls I would prefer to be quieter. 🙂
YEES YOU ARE RIGHT I HAVE LOOK IN THE BOOK IT S
kiss you in order to prevent you from TELLING him "I love you
kiss you in order to prevent you from TELLING him "I love you
Hell, we have got to speak english …
That's will not be a problem , because I have been twice in England, or affiliated countries where English is the main language, like in Eire !
That's will not be a problem , because I have been twice in England, or affiliated countries where English is the main language, like in Eire !
That's will not be a problem
Hum……. I'd rather written
That not will be a problem
Or
That willn't be a problem ?
Hum……. I'd rather written
That not will be a problem
Or
That willn't be a problem ?
will not = wont
Yeah ! I remember, now Thanks, JSC 🙂
Bonus a écrit :Hell, we have got to speak english …Hell is a swearword.
That's will not be a problem , because I have been twice in England, or affiliated countries where English is the main language, like in Eire !
That's = that is
Did you understand the Irish accent(s)?
Hell = Enfer, I'm not so swearing ?
I would not say accents, I would rather use stresses ! And yes, wonderful Gaëlic stress, rolling the "R"'s, and with such a pronounciation that sometimes I did not understand entire sentences
I would not say accents, I would rather use stresses ! And yes, wonderful Gaëlic stress, rolling the "R"'s, and with such a pronounciation that sometimes I did not understand entire sentences
Bonus a écrit :Hell = Enfer, I'm not so swearing ?In that case, I don't understand the context: either you think kissing girls (jichou's example) or speaking English is Hell !
In English, "accent" means inflexion, stress, distorsion of consonnants and the use of vowels with strange diphthongs added. The accent of someone can even narrow his origins down to a particular town.