alenka
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hello to everybody!
i just felt since there are lots of IMGs in here,including myself-we need to help each other to improve our english-will be helpful for the future.
so,let me contribute my 2 pennies:
it's incorrect to say-i'll give my exam-the correct way is to say-i'll take my exam.
other contributions will be greatly appreciated.
P.S.let's focus on grammar issues,not on mistyping-misspelling.
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| ARJ
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I dont know how to contribute????????????when there is no one around to correct my english
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| nisha
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But I'll be "giving" my exam.....outta desparation...coz if I could take it, man I'd "take" it home and complete it with my Harrisons'!
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| ARJ
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Thats funny
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| bbb
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ARJ - it's a loosing battle. Been fighting it since I started working with residents.
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bbb - trying to combine common sense and humour into realistic answers, but not going to guess on anyone's chances of getting into a position....
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| ARJ
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Absolutely correct , BBB, Your endurance is creditable.
I think, its difficult to say who is wrong and who is right ??????????. Diversity in the people makes it more difficult.
English is a Funny Language
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple... English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the
plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
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| alenka
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| reet
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ARJ--- vande mataram...
great posts by indian ??
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| Drstanilo
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This issue of "giving" or "taking" exams is a very controversial one! 
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| 3535
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ARJ- hats off !!!!
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