I always thought just plain "present" was proper, but apparently my Filipino teacher prefers "I'm here" which sounds really odd. What's the normal way to say you're present during a headcount, especially in a class?
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I have two questions.  In the UK, to do (or is it read?) a roll call is commonly referred to as "calling out the register". It's been so long since I was a child that I'm not absolutely sure how students responded. I think it was "Present, miss/sir"  I also seem to remember students just raising their hands. Are there different responses in the rest of the English speaking world?  Secondly, I am experiencing difficulty in pronouncing roll call. I can say each word separately without any trouble but when I join the two together it sounds as if I'm saying "rolkol"; "rolekol" or "rol kol" I've looked in  and  but neither have the pronunciation. Should I pronounce roll in "roll call" as /rəʊl/ or /roʊl/?  EDIT  It seems responding to the roll call with "present" has become dated both in the UK and the US whether it holds true for Canada and Australia is unknown. Apparently, British students responded with "Yes, miss/sir" until the 70s but now the simple, "Here" is heard on both sides of the Atlantic. The Longman Contemporary English Dictionary, claims that  is old fashioned in the UK, but I wonder if that really is the case, and whether in the US "calling the roll" is becoming dated as suggested by the Google Ngram chart in @bib's answer.
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I am not sure if the singular or plural forms should be used in the following. Some people go for the plural, but it doesn't seem to have a plural antecedent.     Each month, the school holds a party. This event is / These events are/ successful because it attracts / they attract over two hundred students.   I'd appreciate your help.
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Can you forget something somewhere?  I expect that much more common is      I have left my book at home.   But, based on other languages where it is quite common (and based on the fact that I somehow feel an intention hidden under the I have left), can you also use (in general, or GB/US/CA/AU specific) the following form?     I have forgotten my book at home.   If a pupil says the first sentence (with leave) in school, will the teacher interpret it as     I have intentionally left my book at home.   or      I have accidentally left my book at home.   ?
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I was in a Teacher's selection for a school in my country, and one of the coordinators said that she heard a mistake from another teacher that was unacceptable. I tried to figure out why was that, but I thought it was silly and forgot about it. Then I was asking about the weekend in my classroom and one of my Ss said the same sentence. I corrected him according to the coordinator, as she is way more experienced than me, but I couldn't actually explain why to him. The sentence was:     I went to the church.   I can't see the mistake in this sentence if the church had been previously mentioned in the context of the conversation. I understand, as a non-native speaker, that if you are talking to a person that doesn't have any idea of where you were and doesn't have any previous information about the specific place, the article 'the' should not be used. Also, I am assuming church as a count noun. So instead, we would say:     I went to a church.   Is it correct to use the indefinite article since I don't have any idea of which church he is talking about?   I made a research about it and found that places that people use in common (like school, church, hospital, work) but are not necessarily the same, we would omit the article, so we would use the sentence that the coordinator accept:      I went to church.   Like this sounds strange to me, but since I am not a native speaker, I think that it is OK.   I really don't think that it was an unacceptable mistake, since the use of the article will depend on the context. So, if I am talking to my student, asking what he did last weekend and we were not talking about anything before, which one should he use?
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Is it correct to say or write an student or an store?
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Note: this post is different to , which just cites part from somewhere else, without any further analysis and thinking. Furthermore, none of the answers to that post answers my question - the situations where &quot;will (going to) be doing&quot; is more appropriate.   I will be participating in IELTS test next Tuesday afternoon.  In an online class, the teacher says the following at the beginning of the lesson.  I will be using NotePod (pointed out by red rectangle) to write relevant points we talk about today.   I guess &quot;will be using&quot; is more appropriate than &quot;will use&quot; there, right?  A  explains  This &quot;tense&quot; is used for reporting a scheduled activity with special focus on its timing— as if one is standing in the future and experiencing the flow of the time. The focus is on the temporary, ongoing, or repetitive nature of the activity.   I understand the grammar rules of those verb tenses and the difference between this group  I am going to drive home tomorrow.   I am going to be driving home tomorrow.  The former is just convey my activity in the near future while the latter probably makes an implication that &quot;don't disturb me as I am driving in that time&quot; However, in the following situations, I don't see the difference between 2 verb tenses.  Welcome back to this class. Today's lesson is for the IELTS students who are going to be taking the IELTS test. it's for everybody to be honest with you. this lesson is useful for anybody who needs to do some writing.   who are going to take the IELTS test ...
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Possible Duplicate:          From the grammatical view both are correct, but please explain the difference in meaning:   The number of students in the class is fifteen. A number of students were late for class.
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My teacher said "I am going to have a walk" today in class and to me it seems incorrect. Correct variants that I know are:    Going for a walk Going to take a walk Going to walk  ...   Is this correct? If so, why?
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What's the difference between:  I will be eating cakes tomorrow. I will eat cakes tomorrow.   And, when should I use the first form?
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Are they here?  1) Yes. They arrived.  2) Yes. They have arrived.    I cannot understand what the difference is.  Of course I know 1) is 'past' and 2) is 'present perfect'  But in my country, 'Present perfect tense' is not exist.  So I cannot understand detail meaning between them.  My teacher told me that 'Present perfect tense' occurred in the past, but still related to present.  But I cannot figure out.  Here is another dialogue that I cannot understand.    Are you hungry?  1) I had lunch.  2) I have had lunch.    Please tell me the difference between them.   Thank you.
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I recently got a message that says      Haven't heard anything from you in a while.   I always thought that the right way to say this would be to use for insdead of in. Are both versions correct? Would there be a difference in meaning?
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I know that words like login and payoff are properly nouns but I increasingly notice many (not at all uneducated) people use them as verbs:     Will you payoff your credit card this month?   and     Please check this when you login.   To me (a non-native English user), that seems incorrect because separating the core noun from a preposition is what I was taught: Please check this when you log in. (My emphasis)  Is this use proper or not?
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It's convention and polite to always list yourself last in a list. I say "John and I went to the store" and not "I and John went to the store."  So does that mean that I should always list myself last, even in the case when the pronoun that represents me is first person, plural (i.e. "us" or "we")? In my case, I'm writing a recommendation letter about my experience on a team with "John," who is the highlight of the letter. I hit a point where I was about to write something similar to:     John and we got a lot of experience working on the project.   or     That project's experience really benefited John and us.   Clearly, he is mentally separated from the others of us who were on the team, at least in this context, so I was just wondering if there were some grammatical conventions to govern this situation.
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I have heard someone say in a conversation, "Well, my point being,,,". As an English learner, I was puzzled but assumed that it was roughly the same as saying "My point is that..." or "Here's my point:"   Even if my guess was right, the phrase strikes me as a bit odd. Can anyone elaborate on the meaning/usage/gramatical explanation of this phrase?
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Why Michael, 's host at the start of each video says "Michael here" instead of "Michael is here"?   Is it grammatically correct or just a slang / simplified way of speaking?
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Here are two sentences:     My having been to South-Korea helped me learn the languages when I took the classes.      Being accepted to Harvard university was the greatest day of my life.   Is it common or natural way to write such 'having+past participle' and being+past participle construction in formal writing? Or should I use the other alternatives for these? Are these construction encouraged in writing? And What about in spoken English? Thanks.  source
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Having a bit of a debate about this with some foreign colleagues of mine.  I've always used the phrase 'I'm walking in the road', they think that you should say 'I'm walking on the road'..  I'm not 100% sure why I use the word 'in', but there must be a reason for it!  So... which is right?