The 1920’s, also known as the roaring twenties was a time of great growth, and prosperity for the United States. America was blossoming into a country with many great new inventions, and it was also full of new, major fads that made big impacts on

Are you sure they speak standard American or British English? It sounds like it might be from a sort of dialect of English. Where I live nobody puts that pronoun there. The only meaning it might have, to my ear, is a sort of enthusiastic emphasis,

I just want to weigh in on this discussion and say that "Jew" is also a verb Hmm, it's not in Merriam Webster. But it's on thefreedictionary.com, which means it should be in The American Heritage Dictionary or something. So I

'This is I', though it remains grammatically correct, is seldom said or used. The American Heritage Dictionary says: Personal pronouns after forms of be: 'That must be him on the phone.' 'No, it must be he.' Traditional grammar requires the

In Bryan A. Garner's "Dictionary of Modern American Usage", the set phrase "suffice it to say" is explained to be the subjunctive form of the indicative "it suffices to say". The article on the subjunctive mood in

The legal speed limit set by the State of California on interstate highway is 70 mph. "Set by..." is a passive construction used quite commonly in English.

1-- when = at the time or in the event that: 'when we were young'; 'when the noise stops'. 2-- when = In informal style when is often used after forms of be in definitions: A dilemma is when you don't know which way to turn. Although useful,

Why is it correct to use a comma after the word "Pentecost"? As we have seen, the feasts of the spring months, Passover and Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, and Pentecost, were historically fulfilled ... Because the three capitalized

Hi. Could you please answer some questions on comma use? Sorry for not providing a full sentence for for no. 1. (I feel the part of the sentence that is given is long enough to answer my question.) 1. Why is it correct to use a comma after

"Your Mom" Anyhoo, my friend said he wasn't sure if that was the case and said that there were probably good movies where the protagonist only has external conflict. In martial arts movies, character is built in training, and battle