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Hello again, In a phrase with "without", which should be the correct insertion 'either... or ...' or 'neither ... nor ...'? It is, I know, usually said that in a negative sentense either should be used like "there weren't either A or B', so applying this rule, I think either/or combination...

Quite a range of idioms, Ms. Jandi. 1. 'He deserved/deserves it.' OK. (I like the past tense better; it is more in accord.) 2. 'He got his just deserts.' OK. 3. 'Now the truth has come home to him. /Now the truth has come home to roost.' (I am not sure which of these phrases you are...

Don't mind me, Sextus. I am embittered by many years of strap-hanging. You develop a jaundiced view of your fellow passengers' reading matter when your own has to stay in your bag for the whole journey. (The worst thing was when they all started reading 'Harry Potter' books.) 1) It doesn't...

Hi, sorry for the previous empty message, I made a mistake. 1) "Now, in the event that this change of end took place, it would still be the Skeptic who searches for the new telos, so that the fact of giving up unperturbedness as his aim would not entail that he stops being a Skeptic.” I'm...

Hi Mr. P. Many thanks for your suggestions, which are really useful. Shoot! It seems that I’ll never stop having doubts with the bloody article. Here I have some new doubts: 1) “Throughout Sextus’ other writings one finds the Skeptic’s distinctively agnostic attitude coexisting with negative...

Thanks for your answer. Finally, I can send the paper till Monday-Tuesday (end of the month). I have some more doubts. Here they are: 1) “We say that the causal principle of the Skeptical is the hope of becoming unperturbed. For men of talent, perturbed by the anomaly in things and being in...

Hello Blitz Answering the 2nd one first: 'I don't want to die - I'm not even married' is probably the right form here. 1. Here are a few examples of the Past Simple. The past simple verb is in bold. It denotes a completed action in the past. It is 'simple' because it has one part...

What’s the difference between these two sentences? I read both in a dictionary and I’m confused. She wasn’t used to him away but she soon got used to it. Now she is used to seeing him once in a year. She didn’t use to him away but she soon got used to it. Now she is used to seeing him once in...

Third person singular (he, she, it, who, which,...) works as follows. Present affirmative. Present negative. Past affirmative. Past negative. She ha s a coat. She doe s not have a coat. She ha d a coat. She di d not have a coat. In the present tense, one and only one verb has the present...

The idiom is "have got" in both American and British English. It is a purely idiomatic alternate for "have" and is not much used except in the present tense. That is, "have got" is the present tense of this idiom, even though "get" is the present tense form of "to get", and the past is "got"....