是否所有英文句子也必須用時態? 如不是請指出那些類型的句子不須用時態.
thx!
P.S: tense=時態

Every sentence has a verb . When you use a verb , you have to show the proper tense . I cannot think of a sentence without a verb . Even a simple answer such as Yes and No has an element of tense in it .

TLY

Dear Mr Yang

Would you pls tell me if the followings have the same meaning :
1) no dice
2) no way

in my understanding, both of them mean "不同意, 無得傾", right?

thanks & regards

Kat

Oxford Advanced Learners English Chinese Dictionary says 'no dice' means you refuse to do something or something cannot be done.
eg,1. Did you get that job ? No dice
2. Can you help me by carrying this box? no dice
It is Americanism and colloqual ' no way' is an informal way of saying there is
impossibility that you will do something or that something will happen
eg. ' Can you help me? no way
' Will they give you a job ? no way '

TLY

Dear Mr Leung,

Why "Whom I am talking to" is wrong?Who is for a subject while is for an
object, isn't it?

When should "that" and "which" follow a noun?I once saw a sentence
"Everything he say is real". Why the word "that" behind everything is
omitted?

Thank you for your kind attention.


yours sincerely,

...

'Whom I am talking to' is correct in grammar , but English people usually say '
To whom am I talking ' or 'who am I talking to '
' Everything that (which) he says is true ' is correct .
' Everything he says is correct ' is the common usage.

TLY

Dear Sir Young,

I like Peter, Paul & Mary's Early One Morning very much. Yet I don't quite
understand the last but one sentence of the song "Around his middle my two
arms I will fling". Could you explain this to me? And actually does the song mean that the girl regrets getting married so early? Seems a stupid question but it's on my mind for a long time. Hope you can help. Thanks a lot!

Yours sincerely,
Carmen


Encl: Lyrics of Early One Morning

Early one mornin’ one mornin’ in spring
To hear the birds whistle the nightingales sing
I met a fair maiden who sweetly did sing
I’m going to be married next monday morning.

How old are you my fair young maid,
Here in this valley this valley so green
How old are you my fair young maid,
I’m goin’ to be sixteen next monday mornin’.

Well sixteen years old, that’s too young for to marry
So take my advice, five years longer to tarry
For marriage brings troubles and sorrows begin
So put off your wedding for monday mornin’.

You talk like a mad man, a man with no skill
Two years I’ve been waiting against my own will
Now I’m determined to have my own way
And I’m going to be married next monday mornin’

And next monday mornin’ the bells they will ring
And my true love will buy me a gay gold ring
Also he’ll buy me a new pretty gown
To wear at my wedding next monday mornin’

Next monday night when I go to my bed
And I turn round to the man that I’ve wed
Around his middle my two arms I will fling,
And I wish to my soul it was monday mornin’.

' Around his middle my two arms I will fling ' means I will fling my two arms
around his middle . Middle is about the level of the waist . Fling means
'throws'

No, she wants to get married .

TLY