By Synonyms, Prepositions

I may have spoken too hastily... In the Little/Small thread in the Vocab section, khoff perceptively says that ' sounds like a childish vocabulary selection'. I think this is true. In the instances where I've heard adults use 'little' in this way, there has usually been an element of humour or...

an attempt wrote: In case the background of the original question is still unclear, you may have a look here: http://info.study.ru/index.cgi?open=1040328225_34110. That’s where the question comes from. I see, and thank you for the link. Seems to me the discussion surrounds the semantic...

Hello KoMountain Thank you. I like your comments because they always contain something informative. Yes you are right. NES people seem not to differentiate 'compare with' and 'compare to' except in some special cases. When they use 'compare' as a synonym of 'metaphorically liken', they tend to...

Roget's thesaurus lists both phrases as synonyms for because of, on account of, and the American Heritage Dictionary offers the following usage note: Due to has been widely used for many years as a compound preposition like owing to, but some critics have insisted that due should be used only...