Whizzo: Perhaps there are at least three ways to express your sentence: (1) He described the teacher's role as BEING BLURRED between instructor and friend, (2) He described the tescher's role as BLURRED between instructor and friend, (3)

Hi, Once in a while. Depends on who I'm talking to. People my age studied Latin in school in England, although now they don't. It used to be compulsory, as a requirement for university entry. I don't think it has ever been

I can't agree with the final comment. See this note from www.m-w.com : usage A body of opinion favors in with the “ interest, benefit ” sense of behalf and on with the “ support, defense ” sense. This distinction has been observed by

It's not "Football"! Football is the sports with strong men and, well, footballs. Soccer is "Fussball" or "Foodbal" in english, closer to the german word! I'm English but most of the time I don't have a

This was off an episode of friend's dialogue...I mean Friends is like the quintessential American sitcom yet they have such rudimentary errors...No wonder I'm confused with English grammar...

I mean you heard it completely like this and wrote it down or with your experience you made the sentence in a way that is correct though having not recognised it clearly. The former. I actually heard it completely. I did not invent anything on the

Scotttiger09, there is no "simple" way to fully explain those two words. Briefly, (1) "Shall" in American English is often confined to questions: Shall we dance? Shall I open the door? (2) Some speakers use it as a strong

<p>Am teaching English in Korea and came here via Google to check the common American usage for the plural Shrimp. I am British and would naturally use plural Shrimp, but I know that some use Shrimps. It appears that Shrimp is common in many

Thanks, everyone. According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style: With other punctuation Put commas and periods inside closing quotation marks; put colons and semicolons outside. Other punctuation, such as exclamation

I only know there's this website. It's supposed to be for American English though. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html Anyway, as long as you don't put your tongue in a completely different place (and