Maj, "turn down" is a phrasal verb. some of its characteristics are different from those of "prepositional verbs". In phrasal verbs, the object -when it is a pronoun- will usually appear between the verb and the adverbial particle. I have to

There have been a number of recent questions concerning when to use hypens. The following is an excerpt from The Economist magazine's style guide. © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004 Use hyphens for: 1. FRACTIONS (whether nouns or

I read in these forums, not lng ago, that there is no rule for every single case of the use of prepositions, and I agree with that. Sometimes, you'll just have to memorise what prepositions go with what words. 1. I don't know why 'on' is used

Can anyone help, please? Last Wednesday, we were talking about the passive voice in class, and we found something in a book called "English Syntax: A Grammar for English Language Professionals", by R. A. Jacobs, which surprised us. In the