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Milky wrote: <You can have a means to do something.> Really? I've never heard that expression. Can you give us an example? Talking about "a means?" See at The NYT: http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22as+a+means%22+&srchst=nyt Also: --------- ...

Hi, Uses fluent connected speech, occasionally disrupted by search for correct form of expression Write some related sentences only, but without a clear central ideas What you are looking at is written in point form. In point form, the rules of grammar are pretty lax. However,...

Hi again, '. . . talk . . . about your study . . .' is not a natural-sounding expression. It'd be more natural to use the word in the plural ( 'He enjoys his English studi es '). It seems more likely to me that you'd just talk to your teacher about the subject, eg Biology. Perhaps it's...

The thing to be aware of here is that bunch of and collection of are words that group several things (often small physical objects) into one, so these two expressions are typically followed by a plural. a bunch of bananas, a collection of coins, a bunch of grapes, a collection of stamps ....

Hi, I was looking at the Vocabulary and Idioms section of this forum and I think I came upon a post that asked if the following expression is OK and to that Marius answered, "I'd say, 'glorous times of exploration and adventure.'" My position is that i would subscribe?? to that but if the...

J Lewis: Thank you for the explanation of 'soccer'. I knew it had been coined from 'association', but didn't know it had been done by the British. Words like 'clothesline' are in dictionaries, so it's understandable that the plural s is there. A United Nations assembly is not in dictionaries and...

Welkins2139 wrote: Yoong Liat wrote: I dived into a 5 feet deep swimming pool. First, it should be a 5-foot-deep swimming pool. Your sentence is that a singular form is used as a modifer before a noun in plural measuring expression. Yes I agree. But there is...

Yoong Liat wrote: I dived into a 5 feet deep swimming pool. First, it should be a 5-foot-deep swimming pool. Your sentence is that a singular form is used as a modifer before a noun in plural measuring expression. Yes I agree. But there is another way expression as...

Mister Micawber wrote: Unfortunately, these-- 'Three Happiness, Four Happiness, Five Happiness'-- sound very non-native. Though the -es plural ( happinesses ) may be difficult for you to pronounce, they are the only acceptable form that I am aware of. I would like to know where you discovered...

Re: a various or various Hi Believer, In the first example, I would use variou s without the " a ". The noun functions is in plural, and therefore does not require an article " a ". You could say: ...can be performed using functions. The adjective " various " can the be inserted...