Hello, this is my first post here but I've been visiting the site for at least several months since I have found some very interesting discussions here. My question is going to be really complicated and it will take you some time to read

Maybe "incongruent" is the proper word for your sentence. I found a somewhat similar sentence in THE NEW OXFORD AMERICAN DICTIONARY: "The rules may NOT be CONGRUENT with the requirements of the law." PLEASE let us know if you

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)

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

Hi. I'm a native American English speaker. Most of your sentences sound very natural. 1. The most important thing in life is not love. Sounds okay. The sentence does sound like you mean to say more, like you mean that love isn't the

(1)A brown-colored rat can change its shape as easily as a piece of rubber. (2) Planning to visit Sweden, Shanna decided to study the native language. (3) Like a good drawing that has a minimal number of lines, a good paragraph should have

Please help me with a few sentencess- I can make them shorter or change a word to sound more proffesional, I can put 2 sentencess into one using linking words: 1. The kind of rat that is brown in colour is as supple in its ability to change its

Hello, The Oxford Advanced Learner´s Compass refers that the verb "To Hire" meaning to give somebody a job, is mainly used in American English. I would like to know if a sentence like "The company is hiring new workers"

Hi, soon, I will be going under a minor surgery. No. Soon, I will be undergoing (a) minor surgery. Note you need a capital letter at the start. I believe using 'a' here is more characteristic of American English.