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Calif Jim I used past tense in the posing example because I was imagining a press article describing the event When we say Manchester United are or is posing for photos we are doing so in the belief that the listener or reader will infer we mean the players or at least those players who are...

Actually Demi mine is more bookish formal than your version which is more common in conversation and informal writing There and it as preparatory subjects do just that prepare the listener attracting his her attention to the rest of the utterance just as we often say hey to get a listener s...

My first language was Greek and Ukrainian even though my background is actually Ukrainian Polish Scottish and Native Canadian Cree I travelled throughout Europe and Asia through my life and now I am flutent in seven languages and can get along conversationally in eight others Of these languages...