By Idioms, Grammar

Clive wrote: Hi Doll, Why are you so sure these other examples are wrong? Yes, I was really so sure that they are strictly not grammatical but tonight I asked them to one of the grammar instructors in my university and learned the correct choices. From the time gives the sense of...

Grammar Geek wrote: Definitely not "fish the fame." That's not a standard idiom. At least, not any that I have evere heard. They are publicity hounds, seeking publicity, what they do are "publicity stunts." Generally, a politician would not consider a love affair as a good publicity stunt....

1a. Articles in this book just present some clues students might use to access target language in most situations rather than burden hem with difficult text.1b. Articles in this book just present some clues to students who might use them to access access what? in the target language in most...

Hello I am not sure if these sentence sare right or not in terms of their grammar, word choice, and semantics. If you find something wrong, please help me edit them. Thank you very much. 1. Articles in this book just present some clues students might use to access target language in most...

Lulu-uae wrote:Many people like to live in a big city for many advantages reasons .Firstly, they can find job expensive cost of living. [ ..I know I have many mistakes,but you can help me.

Clive wrote:Some people do use this oddity. That's a fact, not an opinion. My philosophy is: let them! Hmmm. I understand what you mean. Would you suggest we should take the same approach to grammar? Perhaps so, but maybe not on this Forum? Clive, I think you know by now I don't consider...

CJ, you're the quickest replier again. Is it an idiom? That's strange I've never come across it before. By the way, I guess it was not the grammar book containing a mispelled word, but rather my bad typing.

Hi,some expressions are just idiomatic, so you have to use them as they are. Don't worry about grammar when you come across idioms. It's like "me neither": no one thinks why it's that way, they just use it because it's idiomatic.As for "Prince and me", that's a title. If you post a picture of you...

Milky wrote:That is because you, though claiming your thoughts on the matter of English and easiness are subjective, seem to want us all to agree with you. Your posts on the matter, before you began backpedaling, seemed insistent that you were right, on a gemeral level, about English.I would...

Milky wrote:<There is no such thing as "our way of speaking English", there are innumerable foreign ways of speaking it. There would be absolutely no agreement on "correct" usage.> I'm not so sure he's conerned with what would or would not be correct usage, but more with who says what...