By Idioms, Grammar

This is quite difficult, isn't it. People don't always express themselves very clearly when interviewed. I think you have got the general idea. Vocab 1 - I'm not sure unpleasant and irritable are quite the words here - I'm thinking more a tough older lady, with a no-nonsense, slightly abrupt...

Phew, I didn't get scolded much, I see! I perfectly understand whay you, CB, and MrPedantic are saying. But I see that we disagree on some points mainly because we are considering the same things form completely different point of views. So in the end it's ok if we disagree! I noticed MrP said:...

Hi KooyeenThere is nothing to forgive! I am certainly not in the least offended by your post. In fact, I enjoyed reading it tremendously! I even agree with you to some extent on some of the points you made. I am the first person to admit that my knowledge of English isn't as good as that of a...

Grammar Geek wrote:...and you won't stick out like a sore thumb (do you have that idiom in your repertoire yet?) but you're right, it definitely sounds more formal than casual. I didn't know that idiom, but I guessed the meaning anyway. I see that "many" could sound more formal thna usual in...

This is a commentary on style, not grammar. There is nothing wrong with the grammar of going to go. It's just that it sounds repetitious, and the to go in going to go can be omitted to make it sound nicer. The present continuous is going has a future time meaning anyway, so the additional...

Hi GG, Grammar Geek wrote: He did not let grass grow under his feet - there the were getting immediately there - this part doesn't make sense. Wold you explain the bold? I thought the idiom 'grass grown under youdr foot' is ' that you don't waste no time to make your...

Milky wrote:Why have the "guardians of English" failed to provide such codification for the language as has been done by the Academies for French, Spanish, Italian, or, more recently, Hebrew?That's a good, and fair, question. I don't have time for research right now, but I believe there have...

I am sorry; probably I should have posted this on other forums like ‘General English Grammar Questions’ or ‘Vocabulary and Idioms’. Is it possible to move it over there somehow, please? Or, can I expect that I will get any answer here? Please, it is really important to me. Moved for you....

Which of the following three descriptions best describes dialect? 1 'One of the subordinate forms of varieties of a language arising from local peculiarities of pronunciation and idiom.'

That is the most wonderful story i have ever read, and in this forum I would like to engrave someone like Clive, Grammar Geek, Nona The Brit, Marius Hancu and so on in stone cuz they help us out to understand English grammar and English vocabularies and idioms as well. So we should have more...