HSS, 'had it handled' is an example of a verb phrase with a causative use of have in the past. Since the meaning is causative, it is regarded as dynamic by most grammarians, or, in other words, using your term, have in this particular

Hi, I booked my place on the long-distance bus for the next day. This is British English, not American English. In the US it's called a bus. In England if it is a local service it's a bus. If it travels further afield, it's a coach.

Dear Mr. P I am an English speaking person living in South Africa. My training in letter writing was from the Pitman's Institute, an English Institution. In South Africa we write in English English it just sounds different. My boss was

I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are

Hi, If you search the Forum for get/got/gotten , you'll find a great deal of discussion. With regard to the comment that We do know that the PAST PARTICIPLE of GET is GOTTEN, have a look, for example, here.

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I happened to find "refuse collector" on one of my dictionaries, and it is given with the label British . I wonder 1) what's the equivalent in American English? 2) whether I can say "recycle?/recycling collector" to mean

Hello! I was reading Working Christmas Day by Victoria Schlintz in Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul . I was triage nurse that day and had just been out to the waiting room to clean up. Since there were no patients waiting to be seen at the

Dear All: - The goods are sold cheap. - The goods are sold cheaply. I found that "sold cheap" has more hits than "sold cheaply" on google books search and some corpuses (Corpus Of Contemporary American English; Time Magazine

That's not surprising, knowing how Americans speak. Check it out in and getback to us. Is there such a newsgroup? I thought American English is also discussed here??? All varieties of English come up for discussion in alt.usage.english and in