Search yourself first at: http://www.nytimes.com/ with: "keen on" "keen to" (quotation marks ARE important) you'll find many examples there. At the same site, you'll finnd that "eager on" isn't too much used with verbs,

Leszek L. schrieb: I believe it should be "replaced" because "Jim did not ... agree with the tense of the rest of the sentence. Never mind the tense, "to be replaced" is the passive voice! And "should" is a modal

As Mr. M says, it's a matter of style. American style, for better for for worse (and most would agree it is often for the worse) is to ALWAYS place the period/full stop inside the quote marks. I am the one who had never heard of an ergative

Believer wrote: Hi, Please tell me what (is) the difference is between these two forms of verb constructions? is given or is being given is discussed or is being discussed progressive and simple present tense in passive form Another

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems': Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time it seems that you can’t think of sports without some sort of drug scandal creeping into the

For idioms search Yahoo with "buck the trend" dictionary (the quotation marks are important) and you will find related dictionary pages such as this: ------ http://www.unscramble.net/dictionary-buck.html 7. buck -

I'd suggest a search with "freeze up" dictionary at yahoo (quotation marks are important for grouping terms) whenever looking for phrasal verbs in this case I found as one of the definitions: freeze up (v) ice over, harden, ice

Hello Ben Ben9108 wrote: 1. The provisional items included in the maintenance works are 'less' urgent compared to the fixed items. "Compared to" is a fixed (idiomatic) phrase, so we'd better take it as it stands without analyzing it

You can't justify quotations in that sentence about a thought, but a question mark at the end of the sentence is fine. Consider placing the word "only" AFTER the verb "had": It was too bad that she had only dull Keven . . . Ikia

Hi, I was looking at a dictionary for a grammatical term ( for a start) and it said that "A participle is a form of a verb that can be used in compound tenses of the verb," and my question is "What are "compound tenses"?" And, if you can,