I am not a native English speaker. Underneath text is for a website (a "pre-order/buy-online" help-text concerning a specific narrowed ... full clause after the comma.. Then again.. If we wrote the "full sentence" we would..

I am not a native English speaker. Underneath text is for a website (a "pre-order/buy-online" help-text concerning a specific narrowed topic). The goal is to have as concise and fast-readable sentences as possible. Here they are: "

Hello, I'm a freshmen in college and I'm taking a challenging but very interesting and albeit very rewarding class on precision language. My question for you is: do you know of any in-line interactive grammar drills that drill over the jobs in

Hello, I'm a freshmen in college and I'm taking a challenging but very interesting and albeit very rewarding class on precision language. My question for you is: do you know of any in-line interactive grammar drills that drill over the jobs in

Mirapence I'm constantly working on understanding phrases, but I figured that I can't neglect other grammatical apsects like complements and in/transitive verbs. And that's what today's post is devoted to. Mirapence, I would ask you to

But as a transitive verb with a direct object? There's ... do anything TO the conference, it seems an improper usage. What's your take on "diarise"? It looks like an abbreviated (one dot?) form of diaeresis. Seriously, and even

But as a transitive verb with a direct object? There's something about "blogging the nanotechnology conference" that just doesn't ring ... a direct object. And because "blogging the conference" doesn't actually do

The subject line says it all. Well, not really it doesn't include the part about how annoyed I am ... voting results. Be grateful that Joe Smith blogged ABOUT you yesterday. But please don't BLOG anything. It's just not right. Trying

The subject line says it all. Well, not really it doesn't include the part about how annoyed I am with this phenomenon, which has been popping up online with increasing frequency. Examples: "Yesterday I blogged the Kerry primary

If you mean verbs that take only one thing as a direct object, I read that "shrug" is such a verb. But my son claims that you can shrug your eyebrows. You can shrug 'it', as in "shrug it off". I presume 'it'