By Expressions, Grammar

More or less. I call it setting expectations!Does it mean MAY carries the meaning that the situation is under my control, but I just don't want to commit. I can do it faster or I can do it slower. It's just up to me. If so, this is not the meaning that I want to convey. I'd...

Yes, but we all follow implicit rules, that might not be the same for everyone. You could say "It don't matter" is wrong according to your rules, but those who say it consider it a possible sentence, according to their own rules. Because that's what they have always heard from...

BTW, with Dickens you'll learn top prescriptive BrE grammar,you even could read it in parallel with Fowler, say "shall/will/should/would", IMO: http://www.bartleby.com/116/213.html but some of the expressions are dated.

You've run into a common English grammar argument here. In the expression California vegetables, the word California (though usually a noun) has effectively become an adjective modifying vegetables. Your grammar book is confusing you needlessly here; it has nothing to do with proper...

Hi there all. Can anyone help me with this one? Attorney General can be abbreviated to AG. Likewise, Solicitor General or Witch Finder General can be abbreviated to SG and WFG respectively. When one AG meets with another AG the correct grammar is Attorneys General, with the correct abbreviation...

of the lake (standing on land)on the lake can be interpreted as a short version of either one.CJ

I agree with you wholly, Yankee. Simply I wanted to explain the difference between such construction. Thanks for attention.

Hi FandorinYou seem to be mixing things up.Angliholic's sentence is not an example of the idiomatic "to have got", which means basically the same thing as "to have" or "to possess".In that idiom, it is not possible to change the word 'got' to...

Hi. Yes, both of the words may be used. Simply "have(has) got" tend to be used side by side with have (has,had). have(had,has) got = have(has,had). But the expression "had got" is rarely used in contemporary grammar.

Hi, John is broadening an approach. The above is one of the four possible choices in a test; does it make sense to you? It's correct grammar. If yes, what does it mean? The common expression is 'John is broadening his approach'. You can't usually broaden an approach that is not...