Dear Loretta: Thank-you for your letter. It is always interesting to hear from someone with a similar background or interest. Let me answer some of your questions for you. I want to share with you what I have learned over the years in this

I'm a native English (American) speaker, and I have heard that English is easy to learn at a basic level. However, becoming fluent or speaking like a native speaker is difficult because, frankly, the language makes little sense even to those

Buy a proper grammar book, say Murphy or Azar. Those are very contrived sentences. Try instead: It appears she was talking to me I have a lot of letters to write

How in heaven's name can you seperate good style from proper grammar and idiomatic English? Well, I was thinking of something like "Uh, y'know, I think it's, like, weird" , which would definitely be idiomatic, but probably

How in heaven's name can you seperate good style from proper grammar and idiomatic English? Both (parellel) forms are grammatical. Your second example would leave me scratching my head on a first read -- am I not supposed to be

My grammar book explains that "Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns." I am confused by the example it gives: California vegetables (from the noun "California") It says that California is the proper noun, and I

Hi, I have a sentence that we're having trouble deciding which is correct grammatically. The sentence is: "Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) can have a long asymptomatic phase and then presents in a catastrophic manner." The

Hello All, I have a sentence that we're having trouble deciding which is correct grammatically. The sentence is: "Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) can have a long asymptomatic phase and then presents in a catastrophic manner."

If this sentence originated in the U.S., then failure to make the number (that is, the singularity or plurality) of the pronoun (in this case "their") match the number of the noun (in this case ''seller") is the result of

Hello LWatson, I agree that "the" before "most" does not belong. As it stands now, most are not sure... (I would also say "check TO see" not "check AND see") And "away" should most certainly be "a way."