Thank you all for your kind help with the last set of questions. I still found some areas in English ... past perfect and thus alters the meaning. How would you convey the same idea while maintaining the simple past tense? There is nothing wrong

(Email Removed) (AnandVishy) burbled Thank you all for your kind help with the last set of questions. I still found some areas in English ... bird cage." However, this new sentence shifts the tense from simple past to past perfect and thus

I've been doing a bit of informal research directed to finding out how AmE (political) "liberal" came to mean what it means today. This is a topic that periodically arises in AUE (very often, though not always, as a result of

Tell that to the Mexicans who use "norteamericano" to refer to a estadounidense. The Mexicans I know insist on using the term estaounidense: point of pride. Several dictionaries report that the term "gringo" ... foreigners,

Grammarians are in agreement that there is a difference between a participle and an adjective, but that difference lies in their use, not in the form of the words themselves. That means that you can't always tell the difference between them