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The various forms of phrasal verbs Phrasal verbs can be transitive or intransitive, separable or inseparable. The object or accusative can in the cases of separable phrasal verbs be placed before or after the particle. With inseparable phrases, the object/accusative is fixed and its position...

Hi, 1) You don't say 'I speak a English' do you? So just adding an adjective 'good' doesn't alter this. 2) Ok, I'll try not to confuse you too much on this one. There is a phrase 'a good many' which means 'a lot'. It has no connection with 'good' in its usual sense. This sentence means...

Well, I can't find the article online; but from the little we have, it seems simply to be unusual word order, meaning "threw a stick at me". MrP

Hello guys. I asked for the help, but I did not have a chance to finish my work and post it here, 'cause I was on business trip. Now I am back and I have finished my essay. I will appreciate if someone could give his/her opinion on my work. It might need corrections - structure, word order,...

It is not so simple as that, Flora, but you have the general idea. Good poetry follows natural word stress and sentence stress (I use ' u ' for unstressed and ' / ' for stressed syllables)-- Trees , by Joyce Kilmer 1 I think that I shall never see u/u/u/u/ 2 A poem as lovely...

There are also many typos, Adonis... 1. First reported by S panish explorers in 1796, the asphalt in California's La was mined (commercial) for many years. commercially I don't understand what it's all about 2. New York City's theatrical district (was concentrated the) Bowery from 1860 to...

"to hem in" is the phrasal verb. "in" is the adverbial particle that completes the phrasal verb. It is not used in the typical way a preposition is used, no. "hemmed in the glacier on both sides" is another correct word order, yes. __ CJ

Hi Chintu, welcome to the Forums, First of all, here is the wrong place for your post . Try to repost it to the writing section where it can get more attention from people who are interested in correcting others' writings. But here are a few hints: try to write your article using the...

"Sometimes it feels lonely to be here in the big city surrounded by millions of people." MTL, learning a language is not simply a matter of learning vocabulary, grammar and word order. You also need to get a feel for it, and recognise that although you can say "it feels lovely" (subject +...

Good morning, EE. 2 -- I'm still having trouble with this one; I wonder if there is not an article missing (' the cold'). If the 'the' were there, I find your first and second answers both OK ('from', 'with'). 4 -- OK 6 -- OK but I think you have inverted the word order; it should be...