I really enjoy an atmosphere at this ESL Forum!

[Tamara]

[Tamara]

Hi Amy,

It’s me again. :) Thank you for your response.

Going back to the Michael sentence :) and the two (previous-page) amendments...
Could you say is there any difference between using 'did... get' (Alan’s variant) and 'do... have' (your variant) in this case?

I have a vague feeling that - generally - such a use of Present / Past tense would slightly change the meaning (putting emphasis on a bit different aspects), but I myself cannot catch it clearly…

Or not?

[Alan]

Hi Tamara,

Some points I'd like to raise. Could this interesting discussion be moved to another forum such as What do you want to talk about? or English vocabulary ... as I think it might get lost in this forum. But as we're here, I'll refer to your point about Microsoft Word and dare to disagree with it. Incidentally it won't even accept my surname Townend and insists it should be Townsend!

Back to your point about where do you and where did you? If I asked Where do you get? it would suggest to me that this acquistion is very recent and that it's something you found in a book the other day. Where did you? puts the question seriously in the past, which to me makes better sense because acquisition of a language usually goes back some way.

Alan
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[Tamara]

[Foah]

Hi Alan!

Now, I feel needed to defend the Microsoft Word. Since first, when I?ve read your surname I felt reminded to the lead-guitar-player Pete Townshend. What a name in the formerly rock-scene and surely in the nowadays music-scene.

Googeling the word Townsend I found some advice to the American Townsend-Mountains, a great area in the Rocky Mountains.

As you are one of the founders of this site and still ( after three years have passed by) are buisy here and always are trustworthy, would you feel anoyed if I think about you as Alan, "the Rock", Townend?

Michael
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[Foah]

Hi Tamara!

Just to inform you!

Today is the "shooting the wooden bird day"!

Please, wish me good luck for this challange :lol:

Michael
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[Tamara]

Hi Michael!

Thank you for informing me, I won't be too anxious if tomorrow you miss the attendance of our forum's Sunday school :) :lol:

I wish you the best luck for this challEnge :lol: :lol: :lol:

Have a nice weekend and... keep Saint Monday :)
Tamara
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[Foah]

Hi Tamara! Old eagle eye! :wink:

Thank you for best wishes and patiently correcting my mistakes. You see the page turned round, now you always must correct me!! :wink:

But now, I have to leave the site as I?m needed to prepare for the Big Do. You know: Cleaning the nails, brushing the teeth and cutting the hair and so on...... Although, likely after two hours nobody is capable to recognize the other. But the first view is deciding! :lol: :lol:

Tamara, could you please take my buisy-cards from the Sunday-School for me? :roll:

Have a nice weekend, too.

Michael
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[Tamara]

Hi Michael!

How are you? ;)

[Foah]

[Tamara]

Hello, friends!



Tamara

P.S.

[Dark Magician]

Hi,Tamara

Waoo .............. That great
CONGRATULATIONS

for return your post.....

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ......................................... :arrow:

Mba
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[Foah]

[Hercules]

Hi Tamara

It's nice to see you online .
and you must know that your thread is one of my favourite threads here .

Hope you a good day .

Herc

[Tamara]

Hi Dark :)
Glad to see you, especially at dawn :)

Mba, what about your hairstyle? We’re very patient, aren’t we? ;) :)
And we love you. :) :oops: :D

Have a nice day,
Tamara
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