http://gawker.com/5389594/oscar+winner-paul-haggis-publicly-resigns-from- church-of-scientology-over-gay-rights When it rains, it pours on the Church of Scientology. First, spokescreature Tommy Davis publicly flamed out on his prime time

My comments: #1: It's not "If you didn't want..." , but I hear " He didn't want be second..." The odd thing is that I couldn't detect any "to" after "want". #2: "Cause he's prolly

Could you give me a link to that article? I had no special article in mind. Everyone familiar with western currency flows knows that. Here is an American article about it. " In the last five years, China has spent as much as one-seventh of

I don't pretend to be able to predict what lies in store for the world but the future looks rather bleak to me. Mankind seems to be heading for bigger problems. More and more people are hungry as this New York Times article shows. There are

This structure (the + singular countable noun) can be used to generalize but is mainly used with animals, plants, things and even certain groups of people. 1. The computer has changed the way we do business. 2. The mountain lion is a

Anonymous, most American speakers would probably say: I met my best friend at the university/ I met my best friend in college. In your sentence, I would say, therefore: I met Professor Shah at the university.

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

I'm guilty of one of these... NYT By JACK ROSENTHAL Published: September 25, 2009 For the prospective college class of 2015, the next three weeks loom large. High-school juniors across the country, facing their first Preliminary SAT exams, are

My college had Constitution Day on Sep 16th, and I've assigned to write a synopsis for the day. I wrote and correct the numeric usage in the synopsis, but I still do not have a confidence with what I wrote. For example, I usually make SV

In Bryan A. Garner's "Dictionary of Modern American Usage", the set phrase "suffice it to say" is explained to be the subjunctive form of the indicative "it suffices to say". The article on the subjunctive mood in