Some of you (esp the teachers) may be interested in this monograph, available on the Web: -- Peter Erdmann Discourse and Grammar Focussing and defocussing in English This monograph is concerned with the analysis and description of five

The city is noisy but the outskirt s are lonely. Agreed, I should have thought of that. The city is noisy but the village is quieter / more quiet. I don't think you will hear many native speakers saying "more quiet" in this context

Lordy, Kooyeen - you haven't been paying much attention to Philip! He and I share a VERY strong preference for using "who" for people whenever possible. LOL, no I actually paid attention! I just wanted to say I don't remember

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an

I try to not tell her . I think it's wrong to use such construction. Negative Form of Infinitive is formed by adding "not" before "to". The mistake here is what is known as a "split infinitive", a definite no-no

— A sentence must have a subject (expressed or not), a verb, and a complete thought supplied by a variety of constructions. Example: We are assigned a grammar presentation. — A phrase is a collection or word without a subject/verb, or

Religare was launched in January 2007. As a new entrant, it struggled for brand visibility in the highly cluttered financial services sector. NAC Advertising was assigned the task to make Religare a visible and vibrant brand in the marketplace.

Hi Steve, Generally speaking, I have trouble understanding clearly what he is asking. I'll go through and try to make some comments. My advice is that you should focus your native speaker skills on ensuring that his sentences and

I received this question from a Japanese professor that I am having trouble answering: I am working on the issue of extracting some phrase out of a coordinate structure of the form " ".  As you know, it is generally not allowed to do

Hi. Yes, both of the words may be used. Simply "have(has) got" tend to be used side by side with have (has,had). have(had,has) got = have(has,had). But the expression "had got" is rarely used in contemporary grammar.