i need abit of help with some stuff... maybe someone from the UK or US that speaks english really well could help me....??

sure, il help you if you need help!

Yeah I'll help, but for an english speaker, my english is pretty bad ;) :P

I could help u too...but I can't promise u that it'll end good :lol: :lol: :lol:

ok so there's suppose to be a difference in the meaning of these two sentences and i don't get it:

 

the post has not come yet

the post still has not come

and there are more couples of sentences like this, i do get some, but others i don't really get what the difference in meaning is

is everyone doing the "name 5 things" game now and is too busy with that to help me? :confused:

is it difference in meaning of them?

yeah... for example there was:

-only john can speak arabic really well

-john can only speak arabic really well

 

and here the difference in meaning is obvious... but i don't get the one i posted, and a couple of other ones

the post has not come yet: This is just when it is too early for the post to come...

the post still has not come: this is where the post is late or something and the person is becoming impatient waiting for it...

(I think hehe)

hehe... ok thanx...

and this one is even worse:

 

I have never been very intrested in politics

I never have been very intrested in politics

 

(it's like they just switched the places of the never and the have... wtf?)

^wow, that's a toughie, lol

I'd love to help, but as I have never been taught english grammar both those politics sentences look to have the same meaning. :cry: When I was in primary school, it wasn't fashionable to teach us english grammar. :/ Our german teacher had to try and teach us the basics in order for us to understand german grammar. Poor man spent a week teaching english grammar and we were still quite ropey at the end.

i have the same problem at my school, because i lived abroad as a child and i learnt english as you speak it, and there are sooooo many stupid rules i learn at school now that all the other kids learnt at primary school, and i didn't. I just do what sound right, and many times it's wrong according to english grammer

 

like conditionals and wish sentences are so confusing sometimes.

i tried one of the Teach Yourself English Grammar books once, left me even more confused than I was before!!

yeah... my english teacher told us a story that has to do with this- it's really stupid

 

that one day a guy askes the millipede how he walks with all those legs, and ever since then he couldn't walk...... lol, man i'm bored!