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Right, I had deduced that as well, I like reading about old nuggets like "pray tell" and "fair teeming" and such, which is why this "what" thing caught my eye. My generation of swedish youths is so used to modern english-american lingo that quaint, old fashioned expressions and colloquial...

Hello guys I know we had a conclusion on the subject but I'd like to put some additional information. The article below is a description in a book (written in Japanese) by Late Dr Toshio Nakao, a scholar who taught the history of the English language in several colleges in Japan and in Great...

Hello Jandi How is the weather in the country you live? Here in Tokyo, it is a bit too windy but sky is cloudless and real blue. As to the question you are raising, i.e., 'married to a Japanese', I have googled it. Though I couldn't count the exact numbers, many people are using 'married to...

Few more links. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panini_%28scholar%29 www.spiritualjourneys.net/about_ancient_india.htm india.coolatlanta.com/GreatPages/sudheer/book.html www.indiastar.com/Rajaroy.html www.sulekha.com/expressions/column.asp?cid=305897 ...

Is it correct to use 'whose' when I refer to an inanimate object? For example -- 'an expression whose meaning is ambiguous' And if I paraphrase, do I need an article here? 'An expression, THE(?) meaning of which is ambiguous' Thanks

Hello everyone, An article says (excerpted from a Reuter news) "Mr Haradinaj was considered among the most ruthless of Albanian guerrillas." Can this be rephrased to "Mr Haradinaj was considered the most ruthless man among the Albanian guerrillas"? I assume the latter would mean what the...

You might have noticed in the google of 'a honor' that the 'a' is not the article (at least in the first pages or two that I looked at), but the name of the top honor roll-- 'the A honor roll'. I don't believe that the speaker distinguishes between 'honor' and 'privilege' or the ways in...

Hi MrP. Many thanks for your suggestions, some of which were excellent (such as “help to dispel the confusion”). I have some questions about the suggestions and I added other doubts. 1) You suggested: “The analysis of these issues is important because by clearing them up we will gain a better...

Hello Mr. Micawber, Thank you for the tip about uncountable and plural countables nouns after of. So the expression 'the activity of users' is correct, and 'the activity of the users' is not because the article has to be placed before singular countable nouns. What do you think about the...

Hello, I noticed that the most expressions ... of... use the zero article after of, like in the following examples: 'a generation of users' 'the most basic of mathematical sums' 'a a future individual incapable of independent human thought' Which is the explanation for the use of 'the'...