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		<title>How to Know if a Noun is Countable or Uncountable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next question, &#8220;How do I know if a noun is countable or uncountable&#8221;, is similarly not easy to answer! We&#8217;re speaking about English, remember? It&#8217;s time to take out our dictionaries &#8211; hard-bound, soft-bound, or electronic. We will be using an online version, from Longman&#8217;s Dictionary of American English. We&#8217;ll begin with an easy <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-know-if-a-noun-is-countable-or-uncountable/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Know the Plural Form of a Noun (If It Has One)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[levitracialis onlineZappos You wanted an easy answer, didn&#8217;t you!  Sorry, I can&#8217;t give it to you!  You&#8217;re learning English! Let&#8217;s say you are learning a new word.  A new noun.  The reasonable thing to assume that it is a regular noun, and that it is a countable noun and has a plural form.  As a <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-know-the-plural-form-of-a-noun/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball in America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[levitraZappos Many of my ESL students have come from the Dominican Republic. They understand baseball! Baseball and the Dominican Republic go hand in hand! Baseball is also very popular in Japan so my Japanese students also understand and love baseball. Many other international students, however, have no idea what&#8217;s going on in the game of <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2010/07/baseball-explained-for-international-student/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>For the Stressed out Person</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on the &#8220;play&#8221; button. Wait a minute for the video to upload. Then relax.  Here we are, sitting by the bank of the Charles River, upriver from Boston. Can you relax? What do you observe? What is happening? [See post to watch Flash video] Write your thoughts below. In most cases, you will be <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2010/02/for-the-stressed-out-person-by-the-banks-of-the-charles-rive/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>24/7 (&#8220;twenty four-seven&#8221;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello! Here is an excellent question received from a viewer.  Because we did not have your email address, we could not respond to you personally via email. However, there&#8217;s a bright side to that because we will answer your question on the blog for all to see! The question was:  &#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t it me 24:7 and <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2010/01/247-twenty-four-seven/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Reader Request for a Lesson on Phrasal Verbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a letter that we recently received: Let me say that this poadcast is very important for me since I had some difficulty to understand the use of the present perfect before.  I&#8217;m so glad! first of all I&#8217;d like to thank all members working to help people improve their lunguage skills.  It&#8217;s so kind <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2009/10/a-request-for-a-lesson-on-phrasal-verbs/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Begin a Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really nice to know that people want to know how to begin a letter. First, it&#8217;s nice to know that in this world of telephones, there is a real interest in writing!  It&#8217;s also great to know that our readers want to be polite, socially acceptable, and grammatically correct! Here&#8217;s a request I received <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2009/09/how-to-begin-a-letter/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>American Labor Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Say you want to know when the lifeguards will leave the beaches and swimming pools for the end of the summer. Say you want to know when the swimming pools will officially close for the summer.  Say you want to know when, if you want to swim in the ocean, you will have to &#8220;swim <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2009/09/american-labor-day/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Correct but I Can&#8217;t Explain It&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when your grammar and sentence structure is correct, but you cannot explain WHY something is correct?  First, I say Be glad that it is correct! But of course you are curious and a thinking person and you want to know more and you still want to know why! You want to understand the <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2009/08/im-confused/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is English Knowledge or Is It a Tool?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting question that one of our readers posed. The question elicits thought.  We&#8217;d be interested in your comments and thoughts. in china the english teacher always teach englisn grammar , instead of english story.so students all bore of english lesson. but i think englisn is not a knowledge , it is a tool <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2009/07/is-english-knowledge-or-is-it-a-tool/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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