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Thanks, Clive, for the excellent explanation. I am new to the forum. I appreciate your commentaries which I find helpful. If you would like to, please correct my reply. Thanks again for your help. Best regards

First off, thanks to all for the replies, and especially CalifJim for quite eloquently giving word to the difference that I understood, but couldn't articulate. Secondly, wow, more interesting insights into British English. But with that last, what about the expression, "Come off it"? Does...

Hi Hela, 1) How could I finish this sentence? “What politicians say and what they do …are two different things (this is a very comon and natural expression here, but it isn't idiomatic) Is there an idiomatic expression for this special case ? It reminds me of an Italian proverb which says “Fra...

'Mercy buckets' Mister Eimai_Anglos for the word of caution regarding the use of the phrasal verb 'come off...'. I'll therefore refrain from using it...

Hello ElCid I'm an English learner from Japan. I know I myself am not good at English. But if you don't mind, I'd like to try to answer your question. Maybe I'll make many mistakes in the answer, but I'm sure in this case our teachers come to correct them. So please allow me to do my try. OK?...

All prepositional verbs take prepositional objects. True. But what do we do with ambi-structural "looked after"? They looked (DO) What evidence is there that speakers don't parse "look after" as a unit and "the sheep" as its direct object? It seems all too neat 'n tidy to lump verbs of...

Hello! I'm a total noob when it comes to Prepositional and Phrasal Verbs. A friend of mine gave me the following exercise but I can't get along with it. Can somebody please tell me if the terms in the brackets are either Prepositional or a Phrasal Verbs and why??? 1. The steward "LOOKED AFTER"...

Hiya PAradisse! How are you?? I´m interesting in improving my English too, so you have got a new pen friend here! my email is: BitAUno@hotmail.com I invite all people to write to me, of course. All the emails will be answered. I´ve found that many people from different countries have different...

"the outlook for" is a noun parallel for the phrasal verb "to look out for". "for tomorrow" is "with regard to tomorrow", "concerning tomorrow", "as applies to tomorrow".

Dear teachers! Could you please check the following sentences and correct them for me? 1. Can you answer to the question to whom it belongs? 2. To whom does it belong? 3-1. players' expectations. (Unreal Tournament is the name of a computer game, should it be surrounded with quotation marks...