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You need to provide the complete context. For example, if this is from a movie or TV show? If so which one? What is the surrounding dialog and situation? Etc., etc.Still, to say "someone is on our eleven" is usually used to mean that they are slightly to the left of straight ahead....

No it isn't like saying "having more money than you need is bad". Because the whole point of having RAM, is that you're going to use it, silly. You don't 'save' RAM like money. As far as your horrid 'US' analogy goes, it's more like uh I don't know.....

I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has died",...

First,. let me say that I agree usage-wise Nona and you. I also think that the mother-example is a good one - but it's not a perfect one. It's a good one, because it demonstrates the difference between the time of action and the time of speaking. Noun references are routinely rooted in...

I'm neither Feebs nor Nona, but I am in complete agreement with Nona. You would not use "marry my wife" for the future, but you absolutely use it for the past. You can even use it for your ex-spouse. * Next month, I will marry my wife - NO. I married my ex-husband 18 years ago...

It's true that a low-level student may just need to begin to speak; I encourage you to find someone to talk with. Skype may provide a nice forum for speaking, but I'm not familiar with it. Naturally, we usually don't correct a baby's grammar. However, if you are going to...

When the plurals of fungus and cactus are fungi and cacti (or cactuses), why the plural of corpus is not corpi but corpora (or corpuses)? I know it would sound strange, but by analogy it should be similar to the previous ones.

You missed an article:--- Above all, integrity. The machine is the normal tool of our civilization, give it work that it can do well --- nothing is of greater importance. To do this will be to formulate new industrial ideas, sadly needed.--I think he makes an analogy between houses and...

Thanks, Avangi. I love your analogy. It helps me understand better. than then we might as well drop out. By the way, it's "then"

Ah it seems I have found this too late. I took the Inferno class with Musa in 1981. He actually gave us his mentor's book written in the original Italian by Thomas Singleton to memorize. He didn't want to labor over any stylistics of his translation. In fact, we were forbidden from...