Read any good books recently?

[threaded]

Erm, hjælp mig ... their Danish is as bad as my English.

threaded in "blind leading the blind" mode

[Lucifer Box]

How funny, funny peculiar that is, one of my friends children has just come visiting me to get help with their English homework... They have to write what they did on the Easter break and start the story with the phrase: "I have been"

How about "this Easter holiday, I have been mainly eating bourbon biscuits".

Lucifer in "Fast Show" mode.

[MrsGoof]

æ

The use ITA (whatever that stood for).

I learnt this in my infant school 40+ letters of the alphabet, words not ending with 'e'. Then went to middle school and had to start all over again.

That was when state education was just tulipe

[threaded]

Well, my attempt at using the Present Perfect Progressive on a Past event was to add a verb in the full infinitive and use it as an ?ordinary noun?.

"I have been quite happy to visit ..."

Waiting to see how their teacher marks it.

[expat]

I especially like my essays. I think I ought to put them up on my webtulipe.

You ought to put something up there that you've written yourself.

[sasguru]

Well, my attempt at using the Present Perfect Progressive on a Past event was to add a verb in the full infinitive and use it as an ?ordinary noun?.

"I have been quite happy to visit ..."

Waiting to see how their teacher marks it.

You really are a very sad specimen of humanity, aren't you?

[Churchill]

You ought to put something up there that you've written yourself.

cutting!

[Joe Black]

Is there a "Suicide Bombing for dummies" out yet, or is it still on pre-order only?

[PRC1964]

[DimPrawn]

I highly recommend this one.