http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121907Wed, 27 May 2009 01:50:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:121907davkett0http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121907http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-121907.xmlNot really, K.O. By the way, does your login name stand for Knock Out?--which could be another term related to the use of 'blown away'. Also, you get 'carried away', if you've been knocked out. But that's a different kind of case. In this context, even if you want to be informal, you can't replace 'carried away' with 'blown away'...unless you want to make the comical suggestion that he was blown away by his own breath. Reread CalifJim's definition.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121897Wed, 27 May 2009 01:50:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:121897K.O.1http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121897http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-121897.xmlHi, I think it can be replaced with 'blown away' as in 'the movie will blow you away' and of course disregarding the informal quality of it.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121701Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:50:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:121701CalifJim2http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121701http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-121701.xml"got carried away": "was influenced by the enthusiasm of the moment to the point that his rationality was diminished and his emotions took over, leading him to 'go too far', to 'say too much' at a time when he should have been more circumspect, cautious, and measured in his remarks".http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121664Wed, 27 May 2009 01:50:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:121664davkett3http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htm#121664http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-121664.xml'Overwhelmed' isn't quite right. Picture ocean waves 'carrying away' a thing that's afloat. It's more like a euphoric state in which one is lifted up on a wave of excitement, caused either by the atmosphere surrounding the occasion, or by some internal state that takes hold and sends a person off to the farther reaches of appropriate behavior.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htmFri, 27 Mar 2009 02:50:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:121637Rotter4http://www.englishforums.com/English/CarryAway/bhmpc/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-121637.xmlAccording to the detractors - who include opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwarts like the former Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee - the prime minister is compromising national interest. It all started with Mr Singh's speech at Oxford earlier this month where his opponents say he lavished needless praise on the days of the British Raj. 'Confidence of present' His remarks praising the British for their good governance, and their legacy of a judiciary, police force and the civil services all attracted severe criticism from a wide cross-section of political foes and friends. They accused the prime minister of glorifying the Raj and insulting the entire freedom movement, including those...