In Articles^x, Prepositions^x

Dear teachers, 1) How would you qualify this time of genitive, please? Which "title" would you give it? Is it some sort of "human activities"? but I don't really like this. love's spirit, science's influence, my life's aim, duty's call . 2) Which tenses would you use in the following...

I think Angliholic’s question is a valid & interesting one that deserves some attention & discussion. Not so surprisingly many dictionaries do classify ‘worth’ as an adjective including Gage Canadian, Oxford Advanced Leaner’s, WordNet, American Heritage, Kernerman, Cambridge Learner’s,...

I think Angliholic’s question is a valid & interesting one that deserves some attention & discussion. Not so surprisingly many dictionaries do classify ‘worth’ as an adjective including Gage Canadian, Oxford Advanced Leaner’s, WordNet, American Heritage, Kernerman, Cambridge Learner’s,...

I am not so sure that dictionaries classify worth as an adjective. Preposition it is.

Pizza wrote:For example: I am going to create a new thread on this forum regarding a quick question on capitalization. Would I write it as: "Quick question on capitalization" "Quick Question on Capitalization" etc. What is the proper way to do it? I usually just avoid it and make one-word titles...

If we really want to split hair, I’ll say a mistakes is something done incorrectly, because of not knowing how to do it correctly, or simply misunderstanding the proper method or procedure. On the other hand, an error is the result of oversight or carelessness which is different from a mistake....

Hi Clive, Although I agree with you that in his sentence. Here are few references: The BIG cat who likes getting wet and wild | the Daily Mail Six years old, and at the prime of his life, Odin lives at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Zoo in Vallejo, near San Francisco. He is about...

This post is a little dated but since I've been working with my students on this very topic I thought I'd post.First, you can't understand what the "object of the preposition" is if you don't first know how to identify prepositions. So you need to find a list (google "list prepositions English"...

There’re no rules; but there’re generalizations. You may omit it if: 1. A common noun is used in its wildest sense. Ex. Man is mortal. 2. The noun is a name for a material. Ex. Silver is a precious metal. 3.1. Before a proper noun. An article may be placed before it to turn...

Thanks! Oh sorry there was the biggest mistake: I forgot to say not to change the words and their order because they are given in the testing as I posted here and I just filled in gaps with words given in the brackets. Can you just check the words' ...