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Hello Teachers Oxford WordPower Dictionary gives an example below for "recommend".　　　　　 (x) I recommend you a walk along the Seine. I feel the WordPower and the LDCE contradict each other about the usage of 'recommend'.Is the sentence #3 really wrong?　Could you give me your opinions?paco

Thank you, CJ, for the rebuttal. I point to, and am interested in, definition 5a, only in relation to this statement: 'Is the sentence grammatically true'. It seems to me that 'grammatically' sufficiently qualifies the meaning of 'true' so that 'true' can mean 'conforming to a pattern or...

Hello CJ Thank you for the quick reply. The distinction between 'bring' and 'take' is really messy to us Japanese (who use the same verb for the both). Anyway it is interesting you use 'forget to take something' instead of 'forget to bring something' even in the case you are speaking in a place...

1-- Head of the Department if that is his title; the head of the department if that is his function. 2-- Either is fine. Authorization as a perquisite is uncountable; authorization as an individual action, spoken or written, is countable.

Which is correct: He is the Head of the Department or he is Head of the Department. He will do it only when he receives formal authorization from you or he will do it only when he receives a formal authorization from you.

HelloFor the convenience of other readers, I'll paste what is written in the URL you referred.common error ~ that/which　If you are defining something by distinguishing it from a larger class of which it is a member, use "that": "I chose the lettuce that had the fewest wilted leaves." When the...

TRASK R.L., Mind the Gaffe. The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English, (Penguin Books), 2001. "perfect progressive passive" The perfect progressive passive is illustrated by the following example: My house has been being painted for two weeks now. There is nothing here which...

OK - which is correct? I hear both used. I could care less. I couldn't care less. I am assuming that the second one is correct in indicating a lack of concern. ============ JTT: Both are correct, Robin and both mean, more or less, the same thing. While this might seem odd at first blush,...

The CGEL notes that has been used in this manner for about 300 years. How could it even be suggested that it's incorrect? That would make singular and all the other changes that have occurred in language over the centuries also incorrect. Leaving aside the 'was/were' case, I wonder whether...

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