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Jackson6612 wrote: Hi G.G. 1: What do you mean by ''I'm assuming you mean immediately after...''? In answering your question, I made the assumption that you wanted to know about adjectives that came immedately after the nouns they modify, not predicate adjectives. In "He is happy" happy is...

A Google search of "the absolute best…" and "the absolute worst…" certainly shows their use to be pervasive. So much so that I believe a poll would show their use to be far more pervasive than "the absolutely best…" and "the absolutely worst…." Does this make the former right? Actually, if their...

An adverb, not an adjective, must be used to modify an adjective. So why does the expression “the absolute best…” sound correct and “the absolutely best…” sound not just pedantic but wrong? My impression is the reverse. Is “the absolute (your superlative here)…” construction an established...

An adverb, not an adjective, must be used to modify an adjective. So why does the expression “the absolute best…” sound correct and “the absolutely best…” sound not just pedantic but wrong? Is “the absolute (your superlative here)…” construction an established idiom, or is it that this...

Thank you Yankee. Actually It sounds odd to me. I didn't know how to use 'whenever'. Yes, I would ever use 'if'. Maybe I should learn more about the idiom 'turn around on'. Thanks. LiJ

Hello everybody, "Accounts receivable" is a term used in accounting In this idiom, is "receivable" an adverb ? If it was an adjective, the idiom should be "Receivable accounts" ? May you help me ?

And if I may hijack our thread back for just a moment--I said: In a more formal situation, I would insert the words 'what with' after the comma, perhaps.And my friend Calif Jim said: "what with" strikes me as hillbilly talk.And since I can't reach him to punch him in the nose for implying that I...

CalifJim wrote: My dictionary lists "rather" as only an adverb, no other part of speech. Nevertheless, it does no harm to understanding, and may actually help, if you consider 'd rather as an idiom acting as a verb. Analyzing it strictly as an adverb, as you have done in your two examples,...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game. Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the 'changes'. This was meant to be just a game, not for those wo take everything seriously, and of course in this game...

Umm... Thank you, Alienvoord, IK.I thought this way: "His joke fell flat" is nearly equal to "His joke appeared to be flat (=dull)" just as in "He fell ill" = "He became ill." But now I think it's possible to take it as a figurative idiom. Thank you both again.(BTW, Alienvoord, aren't you a...