By Articles, Expressions

"Russia now stands for the INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION of the status of these republics." (Dew 2007's message from August 23, 2008, 12:32 PM in the thread "US Intervention")"Russia recognizes South Ossetia and Abkhazia as sovereign states" (Reuters, August, 26,...

Yes, you need the definite article before a superlative, whether the noun it modifies is singular or plural. the most beautiful girl/girlsTop gun; top dog are fixed expressions when used without an article. Ultimate climber/climbers may be a fixed expression, but I haven't heard it. If so,...

Agree with you, Isu. I've just found a today's article that gives an interesting overview of the all happened. Maybe you'll be interested too. In any case, just for your information, even though it's mass media source (but a British source, which surprised me, to be honest)....

Memos show Clinton turmoilQuestion: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe?BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | <email addresses removed by mod.>August 13, 2008Question: Why is semicolon used instead of comma to separate the email...

I think the difference in meaning that they're highlighting relates to the words "immediately following", which means "immediately following in time, starting now". Here are a few points relating to this usage that immediately come to mind. I don't claim that this is...

Good advice for beginners using "existential there".You've got four combinations to disentangle here."existential there" means there exists -- such-and-such "has existence"."locative there" means in that location -- at that place.The two meanings are...

Thank you, Diamondrg. What I want to learn is that the expression of "look forward to see how ..." in the article is grammatically right or not. If it's right, is there any different meaning to its ordinary meaning of "to feel pleased and excited about something that is...

I think you mean the sentence Never listen to fear, right? Listen is an imperative and no inflection is ever used in English imperatives. Imperatives like this look like infinitives, which should make it easy for you to learn English. Except for certain fixed phrases and idiomatic expressions,...

Thanks, Delmobile. The article I took the expression from talked about the same model of car. G-Wiz. What a small world :)

StartFragment> In 'figure' article in a dicitonary, 'a head for figures' come up two times and 6 figures • a natural ability with figures 8 a person in a painting or a model of a person: • the figure in the background • A Head for Figures I want to know what 'a...