Hi all, I heard somebody (a native speaker of English from Ireland) say " misunderstood beauty " to refer to somebody whose beauty does exist but is not widely recognised, agreed or self-evident. In case somebody has some grasp of

Jim, do you think 'through the Internet' is that rare as the other people say here? For some reason it seems all right to me, but we must take people at their word when they judge an expression to be unusual to their ear. I've heard

Hi Avangi, I am sorry I can't help further. What I wrote in my prevoius post is pretty much everything I know about the search function, so I do hope that one of the admins steps in here. she said there was no way to locate a post by number.

Vctory: In the future. please post an essay one time only. Duplicate postings annoy the moderators and confuse the participants. If no one answers your post, you can reply to it, it will bring the post to our attention. Making shorter posts, for

Hi Alda The expression "online teacher" is one that you hear pretty often nowadays, and I would understand the meaning as I described it in my first post. To me, that has become a pretty commonly used collocation, and even without any

Hi, Are the following expressions gramatically incorrect? No. I have been walking my dog these three years. He has been playing at the Wimbledon since he was 18 years old. A private English school's website in Japan

Also, there's this expression: To cut someone down to size. I leave it to you to find out what it means on the internet )))

. I have been walking my dog these three years. -- OK He has been playing at Wimbledon since he was 18 years old. -- OK A private English school's website in Japan says the above expressions should be changed to: I have

Are the following expressions gramatically incorrect? I have been walking my dog these three years. He has been playing at the Wimbledon since he was 18 years old. A private English school's website in Japan says the above

Hi, there!!! I´m from Brazil and here we have a way of saying that we got someone's things with us, like this (literally): "I´m with your key." But a friend of mine has told me that we cannot join people and things by the be verb.