. 1: " Would you like to bet with me on which cricket team wins ?" 2: "It must have been raining." What does it mean? -- I am sure / I think very strongly that it rained. .

My dear and respected teachers, 1: "Can you bet with me on cricket to see which team wins." correct? 2: "It must have been raining." What does it mean?

Bats aren't rodents... and they aren't eyeless... And 'cricketing' can mean a pretty general action related to cricket...

MC wrote on 12/9/2005 : Incidentally... Nitpicky me wants to know if it's necessary that it's a *tiny* cricket, that it's a *large* king-size bed, and how we know he's counting sheep, and how we know they're white. Uh-oh,

Elroy Willis wrote, A tiny cricket chirps loudly under the floorboard, driving a man lying in a large king-sized bed crazy as he tries to fall asleep. He tries counting white sheep jumping over fences, but it doesn't work. Forgive me - and the

A tiny cricket chirps loudly under the floorboard, driving a ... it doesn't work. What's the proper capitalization of the above? I'd say just as you have it. But, in my view, if it were slightly different, with a major INCIDENT ...

The current wisdom in specs is to do it *very* sparingly, if at all. Is it treated similarly to camera directions? Leave those up to someone else? I don't know about that. I'm not aware of directors putting them in afterwards. I suppose it

Do most writers do the capitalizing of the prop and ... variable names as I write a program, following some convention... The current wisdom in specs is to do it *very* sparingly, if at all. Is it treated similarly to camera directions? Leave

2) There is some dialogue, or a character talking about one thing, and another overlapping voice talking about something else. E.g. A conversation at a dinner table while the radio or TV announces some important breaking news. I was going to

Richard Fry typed thus: Soccer is a sport, cricket is a sport, etc. So then why does UK English refer to a collection of these activities in the singular tense? Why not "sports?" But it doesn't. I play five sports. Many sports are