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Hi Jackson, "He" is in some location, possibly unable to find transportation. Actually, "frequency" in this context is usually applied to busses. One usually calls by telephone for a taxi cab, unless one is in the city at a busy time, and can "hail" a passing cab...

abroad (FOREIGN PLACE) Show phoneticsadjective , adverbin or to a foreign country or countries:He's currently abroad on business.We always go abroad in the summer. It's not always an adverb. It doesn't suit your sentence. Foreign is much better, unless you change the word order...

Yes, I should've done it myself first I got it. I thought the word order was adverb + adjective first, but these are an adjective and a noun phraze, I suppose. By the way, 'favorite' is countable, so; These are particular favorites of mine. Is this correct?

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

I really couldn't tell you which is more common.

Hi PhilipThat's interesting. Would it be more common in the US to have the verb (said) before the subject? That is the old word order in Germanic languages and it is required in Swedish after a quote. English is more flexible in this respect, both word orders are generally considered...

Hi Hoa ThaiThere were a number of details that I considered in my last post. These included the following:- Sold out used strictly as a verb vs sold out used like an adjective - Verb tense- Using sold vs sold out (particularly in combination with the word 'all')- Word order (i.e. Does...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

Is is the verb in the first sentence and the station is the subject. In the second sentence are is the verb and the tickets is the subject. Here is an adverb of place in both sentences. The inversion (= verb before subject) is due to here. In other Germanic languages inversion is always required...

Hi KooyeenI'd agree that the word order in "He asked what was the matter" has more to do with idiom than anything else.The verb 'be' doesn't always follow the usual word order that you find in other indirect or reported questions. I would say that this depends somewhat on how far away from the...