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16: is known as (passive structure; active form: We know Boston as the Hub...) 17. storing, erasing and retrieving (These are parallel and should be in the same form.) 18. Professor Andom Iyassou ("Professor" is a title. If Andom Iyassou is one person, "professor" must be...

From www.m-w.com 3camp Function:noun Etymology:origin unknownDate:circa 1909 1: exaggerated effeminate mannerisms exhibited especially by homosexuals2 a: something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing b: a style or mode...

Welcome to the English Forums, Doctor. Thanks for joining us. You may change from "smarting" to "red-faced," because as far as I can tell it's correct. I'm not sure which part of the statement you object to.I think the technical term is "plan drawing," but...

of ... is a preposition and is generally placed before a noun eg. she is part OF a group. ( a group. the noun preceded by it's preposition)could ... is an adverb which describes the verbeg. she COULD be part OF the group ... (COULD describes the verb TO BE)It follows from the above that the...

Oops! I oversimplified. My remarks pertained to the use of next and the next when referring to time. Trains are different! Both of your examples require the next (train). train is a countable, singular, concrete noun, so it has to have a determiner. This takes precedence over any other...

I think the difference in meaning that they're highlighting relates to the words "immediately following", which means "immediately following in time, starting now". Here are a few points relating to this usage that immediately come to mind. I don't claim that this is...

Hi, . . . friends, I feel there is more to the explanation of it.What are noun numbers tI'm no familiar with this expression. To me, it sounds like a way of talking about singular/plural.and determiners? Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner_(class)Let me assure you that if...

"Accounts payable" is a fixed expression - sort or a compound noun - the name of a category, or a file, or the head of a column; or the collective term for a group of accounts which are payable. (This last usage could also be expressed as "payable accounts," but the...

These are my perceptions. "I haven't a" is used in certain expressions such as "I haven't a clue" or "I haven't a care in the world" (probably this is the same in the US?), but it is not natural with arbitrary nouns. For example, almost no one these...

I think you mean the sentence Never listen to fear, right? Listen is an imperative and no inflection is ever used in English imperatives. Imperatives like this look like infinitives, which should make it easy for you to learn English. Except for certain fixed phrases and idiomatic expressions,...