Greetings, Changeling, If you notch up something such as a score or total, you achieve it. It is mainly used in journalism. Perhaps you should think of another way of presenting the same idea, as the collocation with clothing line is not a

Hi B.J! I think the underlined phrase stands for, in the first sentence They were supposed to deliver the flowers. or They should have delivered the flowers, in the second: "This screw should fit into the hole... . I think it is shortened in

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:

Hey there, guys (and hello, Clive). If I'm not mistaken, nowadays, there is little to no distinction between "has got" and "has gotten," am I correct? I examined The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and the

Let me ask a question about the following sentence. They really knocked our radars back with white noise. (p475,Red Rising ... thing back I don't know what movement the thing will get by being knocked back, especially when it is radar. Thanks