By Expressions, Grammar

I agree. In other sports, your conveyance would probably flip end for end. But I can imagine a toboggan travelling rapidly downhill in deep snow, going over a "jump," and noseing into a drift, stopping abruptly, and "pitching" the riders ahead, past the conveyance and into...

I had to go back and reread the whole post before I saw that.live on is the more neutral form. There is no anxiety about what one is going to eat.live off seems to me more the case when one must forage for oneself in dire circumstances, for example, in the wilderness - a sort of...

Tense is a form assumed by a verb to show the time in which an event occurs and the degree of completeness of such event at the time of its occurrence. To decide on which tense is more suitable will depend on a given situation. In a situation where you are required to compare tourist arrivals in...

Hmm... this seems to be another case of varying terminology. I have no objection to calling a participle an adjective, I'm just not used to that. Nor am I used to many other grammatical terms used here, like "a noun phrase". Don't get me wrong! I certainly don't mean...

"pay my respects" is the most common expression. I don't think I've ever heard "pay tribute" used in this context.

Perhaps, "Reparing the thousands of miles of eroding coastline . . . . "I was probably being picky. Expressions like "repairing the long neglected / deteriorating Route 5 highway" are quite common, and meant to describe the time factor.

Well, the view is unobstructed on account of the windows being unobstructed (by walls, other buildings, trees, hedges, banks etc.) It's a similar use of "open" to that in expressions such as "an open outlook", "an open field" etc. BTW, my thinking is the same...

I feel the same. But what's the object? I'm inclined to treat is as an idiom which defies analysis. (Intransitive would be, "the door suddenly opened.")Edit.Come on, open the door.No.Open up!No.Just open a crack.Okay, I'll open a crack.(Could this be eliptical? i.e.,...

It's not idiom since its meaning can be deduced from the literal meanings of the words. An idiom is a collection of words, the meaning of which is learnt and cannot be concluded from the individual words, for example: "out of the blue".

Do you want some more examples? I can give you a lot! You won't believe it! Yeah, the net is a mess.As Jim said, in some languages hair is plural (mine too, and that's why I tend to make that mistake and use the plural). But on the other hand, optilang showed you how a certain...