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

What I meant by the hallmark is explained as follows. The State of Manchuria became the hallmark of the Japanese empire when it conquered the land which was a part of China and the Asian Contient. This is the start of the hallmark. And

Hi Clive So it's not possible to say why the writer mentions this whole population here? It's a longer passage. But I don't think it will make it clearer: After 6,000 years of conquest and colonisation, the

Hi Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone. And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion

Just a few comments and a curious thought... What is "sightings" referred to in your O.P.? Is it in the same context as "The UFO sightings"? Sightings is the shortcut of "sighting report". It is a

Just a few comments and a curious thought... What is "sightings" referred to in your O.P.? Is it in the same context as "The UFO sightings"? Would anyone object the use of the word " refrain from sending" in

Hello! I have a question on the phrase "along these lines". When I searched the internet, what I could find was only the use and meaning of that phrase, but the paraphrase was in English. Although I found some webpage saying

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It was the fitting into Confucian patterns of conduct and of family and community life rather than blood kinship or ancestry which labeled one as civilized and as Chinese. The sentence is correct and your analysis is right. It is a preparatory

Yes... and I think that people would say " I very happy " instead of " I happy " - an adverb is required here.