In a sentence: " Not every one can detect such actions, as the cutting edge of the flint stone leaves behind faint parallel incisions that a trained eye is meant to see ". What does the phrase mean?

Hi LeeSang, Let's take your examples one by one. 1. Mission impossible -- This started as a popular TV series, where it was actually Mission: Impossible. The mission was classified as impossible to complete. It's now entered the

Regardless, it still represents a trite nuance. After a few centuries we've finally given up 'actress.' I think Zissner, Grammar Geek wrote: The authoress is a natural German speaker. Perhaps this is another Americanism, but

Dear all, I met a difficulty in English writing, I'd appreciate if you could give me some advice. When I'm writing an english paper, the most difficult thing for me is to find one or more appropriate adjectives to describe a noun, or an

. Hello, Marta. Please do not double-post. Please break the questions into two posts if you wish (but a few vocabulary questions in the grammar forum will probably pass unnoticed). - 'it's not summer, autumn, or winter'. Some editors

Hello. I'm Marta, come from Poland. I'm working on a text in English and have encountered a few problems. These are mostly of a rather subtle nature but for several reasons it's important for me that the whole text sounds as

Hi Sutty I doubt that your teacher wants you to include the possessive or plural forms of nouns -- but I may be wrong about that. Did your teacher mention that specifically? It sounds to me like you've been given a vocabulary building

Hi there, I decided to put this here in the linguistic section because it seems like a strange and very complicated subject to discuss. I am going to improve my vocabulary in a systematic way (finally!), using a technique I don't feel like

There is no such thing as a "complete" list. You could try these: http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/bl1000_list_noun1.htm http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-nouns.html

I have taught English as a Second language to new learners. The question/answer pair "What is this?" / "This is a ..."  is lesson 2 (after introductions "Hello, my name is...", "What's your name?") t