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Dear teachers Are the following particles adverbs or prepositions Lay OFF take OFF Give BACKwalk OUT run OUT hurry OUT walk AWAY run AWAY hurry AWAY The visitor HANG UP his coat UP preposition She TOOK DOWN her hat from the peg DOWN preposition He paid off his debts Can we say he paid his debts...

I ve always seen in light of no article I would say in the light of the moon but I thought the expression meaning influence had no article Comments from others

Grammars usually say that the present perfect tenses cannot be used together with expressions pf finished time we can say I have seen him or I saw him yesterday but not I have seen him yesterday In fact such structure are unusual but not impossible though learners should avoid them Here are some...

I made comments for my portfolio the deadline is friday my appreciates I was a designer for the first time It was an unexpected experience And I thought I d happy about falling into the design field Do you know what I mean It was an exhibition which held in 2002 It was the first design festival...

lt I agree with Micawber The expression is It time about time high time you taught them gt Not always The BNC 1 on to pastures new Philistinism is rife and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership 2 over egged the pudding for the house owning...

no rule concerning this No not really There is only the general principle that idioms are extremely resistant to any sort of modification Just the change of a to the or a similar minor difference within an idiom will stand out as strange to a native speaker much like a tiny particle caught in one...

When do we use omit the article in the expression kind sort of article thx in advance

In addition to my comments above I have found a hint in the articles section of this forum http dark rain org useful expressions for essay writing index html This hp provides you with some expressions you might use in your essay Best wishes Moe

I still can t understand The article at answers com says Mid 1800s does it mean that the expression is out of date archaic Then why it is still used e g in NY Times Does it have some stylistic peculiarity Does it sound bookish create some special style

WRITING IN English is not easy really from the beginning to the end like the writing in any other language you should be friendly with vocabulary and expressions as a small writer in my mother language I know something very important that you most be near to the word article and what you like...