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

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:

A bit late. Sorry. Sean O'Leathlobhair wrote on 14 Jul 2004: I have never heard a native say: "I can't drive ... that is because of the "on me" at the end. It's quite common in the lower registers of AmE. It may not be

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It's a contraction that's common in speech, but seldom is taught in writing so that people without a good ear ... of a colloquialism (when children learn "of" that may be what they construct internally as well as what they

It's a contraction that's common in speech, but seldom is taught in writing so that people without a good ear assume must be written "of" instead of "'ve" to show the contracted form of "have." Must have