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Yoong Liat wrote: If you use a personal pronoun on its own after than, it must be an object pronoun such as 'me' or 'him.' It used to considered correct to use a subject pronoun such as 'I' or 'he', but this now sounds very old-fashoined. Actually, a professor of mine (he teaches...

Anon, that's true, but that use is SO limited that unless you are in the field of psychology, you will not use affect as a noun. For almost everyone learning English, consider it a verb.

Hi, this is another common problem, it's difficult to choose between singular and plural sometimes. Anyway, I learned that in cases like the ones you asked about, plural nouns are much more common. Example: Elephants have a trunk... 27 results, on Google (real number of results) Elephants...

Believer wrote: Hi, I don't think I am beating the dead horse here because to me, the purpose is still alive in that I still don't fully comfortable with the workings of it. (Would you say the underlined personification of a noun like purpose is good here? In what instances would you resort...

Hi, I don't think I am beating the dead horse here because to me, the purpose is still alive in that I still don't fully comfortable with the workings of it. (Would you say the underlined personification of a noun like purpose is good here? In what instances would you resort to the tactic of...

Anonymous wrote: When I concentrate my attention on the problem, I am not accustomed ___ interrupted. a. To be b. To being c. Being d. For being *** I thought "to" can only use with v., such as to be, to hear.... Why? Thank you, Hi, There are many verbs that work with prepositions and...

I really don't want to wade my way into a quarrel, especially on THIS topic, where my feeling was that it takes a plural. (Even though Marius (the king of searches) found a singular use from an impeccable source, if I heard it the way it's listed there, it would sound marked and unnatural.) The...

(correct me if possible, I'm learning English at the moment , esp marked with *) ex: There is a labyrinth in my figure. May I call a line,showing a path, in the labyrinth 'road'? (Check the commas, please. Is something necessary before 'road'?) (is it possible to say 'What if ...'?) What if I...

Capital letters are very important in English. 'I' is always a capital and you must start each sentence with a capital letter too. Proper nouns, such as Korean and English, always start with capital letters too. Although people may sometimes drop this in very informal writing, it is not correct...