Hello again. Sorry for the delay. I was distracted by a horrendously written online encyclopedia. But, anyway . . . "This guy is a burglar! A wrong 'un in pants in the heart of Brazil." Wrong 'un means a person of bad character

Hi, everyone. Today when I was reading an article on anti-plagiarism software, I came across the structure of "a ... amount of + the plural form of a countable noun". The whole paragraph in which the structure appears goes as follows:

Yes, this is fine. The use of "however" presupposes some contrasting statement, "however," This is the same use of "extent" to which I objected. I suppose it qualifies as a colloquialism. I may be wrong. I'll look

X-Post de.etc.sprache.misc,alt.usage.english, F'up de.etc.sprache.misc. Answers may be in German or English. A request to English native speakers: Please, have a look onto the following sayings wich are translation drafts of some stylistic

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