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hi friends.would you help me? would you tell me about reduced clause? please answer..

Hi,

Do you know what the matter was?
Do you know what was the matter?

Why is the first wrong?

Thank you.

If an army "requisitioned" a land from a private owner, does it USUALLY mean:

1) the army formally asked for the land, or
2) the army already forcefully took the land?

Dictionaries seem to have both meanings.

bossoms ,your letter is great

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

"Fill your life with love until you have so much it spills out of you."

yeah ,there is only small difference between them.

I am preparing for TOEFL Ibt, but my ability in English is a little weak. especially in speaking skill, so if tutors, friends who know how to speak English well, please show me. Maybe I can say my speaking skills is really terrible. I say without stress and no intonation. My speech is always level. ...

l love Twilight too.
I had already read New Moon and Eclipse.

Hi everybody!

Why do we always use an indefinite article "a" before the word lie while necessarily definite article "the" before the word truth?
Thanks a million!

yes , it's more likely chinglish, you should read more