I looked it up. The only thing I see from a cursory reading is what I'd call the personification of the woman's feet. Someone else may spot what you're referring to. http://www.amandashome.com/somemother.html

Agatha, In my grammarbook it is said that every verb-phrase consisting of several verbs, the first will always be finite and the rest non-finite. - When I was a schoolboy, I once noticed that my English teacher made a mistake on the blackboard:

Hi, Raj. Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us! Could you please give us an excerpt showing the figure of speech you're asking about? Most poems are loaded with them. Best wishes, - A.

Dear friend, glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel. If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides , as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide. If these sounds are

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Debpriya, How to express the same feeling in the written words that is heard in tone of voice when speaking is one of the great challenges for a writer. It borders on poetry--the sound of the words in your mind and their cadence in the sentence

TrysB, thank you for your great big speech ;-) So the answer in the first example is “None is.” Can I say just “None” without “is”? Do you personally prefer to use singular or plural form of verb after “none of’?

Thanks for your help TrysB and welcome to the forums , but the thing is the lest...should construction is still part of our curriculum in schools and colleges in India, so we have to be aware of the rules governing this construction. But

"What this shows is a government that is ready to make tough decisions." Whether the release of al-Megrahi was right or wrong, Scots are standing up for the freedom to have made it. This is much better. Hopefully, if you went back even

Hi Alex Here's a good description of the kinds of indefinite pronouns and the verb forms they require: http://www.grammaruntied.com/blog/?p=319 In the first sentence i would say neither of them is her boyfriend. Or you could say "Neither