I know this is unrelated to the question, but I lived in Maine for 15 years. In fact, my friend owned an art gallery in Brunswick. (Speaking of Maine artists.) Is the Great Impasta still there? Are the garlic knots still as good?

Hello, Vladimir, this combination has not yet been codified in major pronunciation dictionaries, perhaps due to the narrowness of its use outside technical areas; therefore, we should resort to analogy. Thus, acronyms of a similar type

Hi, Just start by writing what you would say if you were talking to a bank employee face to face. Then post it here, and we will help you with it. Clive Thread is now locked, please start a new thread with a draft of your letter.

a unique situation is correct. You have to go by the pronunciation, not by the spelling. yoo-neek is the pronunciation of unique . CJ

Grammatically speaking, it should be 'them', but notionally speaking, many native speakers would subconsciously conceive of the group of spectacular things as a single unit against which to compare 'this'. They would then use 'it'.

Hi all!!! I am going to apply to a university and they want me to write an essay. It should be between 2000 and 3000 words and caver the following aspects: My motivation for the MSc-programme that I chose. Why I wish to conduct this programme

Again in a conversational context, for me the questions posed, without further context would seem to elicit this kind of conversation... A) What club are you in? (Tennis? soccer? crib? or? and so forth) After the type of club is

Thanks, DL, I appreciate your comment very much. I think I get the nuance. Yet would it be correct to conclude that in an ordinary conversation both questions can be used more or less interchangeably? For example, I want to know in what (which?)

Thank you Philip. One little question for the long sentence? 8 I hadn't gotten fired becuase of a girl in a while especially not because of some ugly colleague I dated that went wrong. (talking about a person who has problems

Hi B.J! I think the underlined phrase stands for, in the first sentence They were supposed to deliver the flowers. or They should have delivered the flowers, in the second: "This screw should fit into the hole... . I think it is shortened in