By Expressions, Grammar

Could someone please help me with this argumentative essay? I have to write an argumentative essay against cosmetic surgery. Could someone please look if there are mistakes (grammar mistakes, vocabulary mistakes, logical mistakes), if the text is well-structured, if everything in the text is...

Hi, 1) Where I think we need to carve out some territory of definition in practice is to say that proselytism is relating to people different from oneself by using means and methods with ulterior motives in order to convert. But what's happening in secular literature is that it is moving...

(1) Where I think we need to carve out some territory of definition in practice is to say that proselytism is relating to people different from oneself by using means and methods with ulterior motives in order to convert. But what's happening in secular literature is that it is moving even...

Hi Anon, Your questions are excellent and show a good grasp of the issues. You're pushing me to the limit of my knowledge on the subject, which is a good thing. My opinions are based more on a long lifetime of listening to people use the expressions, and less on reading about them in text...

Sentence A. My friends have been living in the next house for five years. Sentence B. My friends have been living in the next house for five years so far. davkett #123154 Mon, 01 Aug 05 09:38 PM This might do it: 'I have been listening to the...

Hi Clive & Grammar Geek, Thanks for catching my typo error. Thanks for your responding my post in seconds. Thanks for your illuminating explanation. However, Grammar Geek's "nothing could be less true" is more complicated than the original expression "nothing is further...

Sure, I used to hear it growing up in NE, but among "uneducated" people, so to speak. I think it comes from "Oh yeah! ? - Who says?" or "Says who?", often written as, "Sez who?" to indicate that's an example of "improper" grammar. (reply)...

I've never heard this expression. From the context it probably means to stop seeing him (the standard expression is "dump him", but not "like a dog")So, try this: "You should dump him. Make him his suffer."

It's not at all redundant. When you say this about someone you are complimenting them. It means that you can trust the person to tell you what she thinks ("says what she means") and that she really believes, or will do, what she tells you ("means what she says").

.Before starting the new lesson, I'd like to introduce the main new words and expressions and grammar points so that you can follow along easily .