In Verbs^x, Spelling^x

Ok... so basically I need to do a five paragraph essay (Paragraph model?) by analyzing 3 quotes from this a passage I read "No name woman" by Maxie Hong Kingston. I'm just having trouble with a few things... some I understand, and others I don't. I tried fixing some errors that...

The prepositions are both fine and natural, but in AmE we'd add a third, so to speak. We use the expression (idiom) "line up" to form a line. I guess BrE is "que." I don't know if it can stand alone, or if it's "que up," or if I'm spelling it...

.Get is a common verb in various verb phrases. These are used:Could you please get my car working? It doesn't seem to work. Could you please get my car to work? I will get my staff to work on it. -- Get to do has 2 common meanings here: (1)convince or coerce, or (1) cause to begin I will...

Your instinct is right--the phrase refers to "last year's figure" but the word "figure" is understood and so dropped. So grammatically the spelling should be year's. However, it has become common especially in conversationto drop the 's, and that has slipped into...

I think it's important to keep in mind that many verbs have both transitive and intransitive usages.For example, the verb 'to cast' (note the spelling, Anon) has many common transitive usages.

It's a spelling mistake, because every native speaker who says your a weirdo knows they are actually using a verb, "you are" a weirdo. Anyway, Cool B., your answer ruled!

Hi Goodman, your point is well taken. Actually if it were in my power, I'd scrap this thread and start over. I wasn't really the author of your quote. I erroneously corrected the verb form which was correct to begin with.But I also have a feeling that when an attorney enters a guilty...

Smelt is an alternative to smelled and is preferable, though not obligatory, in British English. At the end of the day, the sound difference is only between and . The verbs that follow a this pattern of having regular / irregular alternatives with this t/d sound ending are: infinitive ...

Ant_222 wrote:No help from your last post, but after re-reading our little conversaton over I have come up with a reolutionary hypothesis! The problem is that there're two possible omisions: 1. There are time when... (and one has to use present tenses, as I argued) 2. There are times which......

I don't know what you guys are all on about with devoiced /z/. It's not a devoiced /z/, it's just /s/. In the example that someone above used, "vases"... I don't know about up North or across the pond (either one), but American Standard has that as /s/ in the medial and /z/ in the final. Well, if...