These are correct: 1. It is to be used as a replacement for the old equipment currently in use. 2. With your generous support, (the) construction has begun on our long-awaited project. It is expected to be completed soon. 3. Hearing the jingling

Thank you Clive for the critique. For the New York sentence, is there anything wrong or misleading in the construction that needs to be reworded. After the rewording, the original past perfect context has been erased. Maybe I tried too hard to

The only time I'd expect to hear that construction in AmE would be for a calculated effect, never in conversation. Hi, Rick, didn't mean to sound huffy. We've had a few members who enjoy studying literature from past centuries, and

Hi, I have a question of "have" and need your help: when I use it as "own" in an interrogative sentence and I want to express the meaning of "do you have any idea?", can I use it this way: "Have you any

*the slept man *a belonged wallet *a left guest *the gone people *the arrived women *a disappeared rabbit *a died geranium Hi CJ, I get our point. I have no argument about intransitive participles not being able to

1. must have to ex) I can't start the computer ,You must have to know a password ex) John wasn't at home when I went round .He must have had to go out unexpectedly. It baffles me that an ESL teacher might claim never to have heard

The problem you are having is that the felt goes with she and the convicted goes with her son , and so you can not say She felt convicted by the media... As a result you have to put her son into a subordinate something (clause, whatever) to keep

Vincent Teo, 'Last fortnight' is by no means incorrect, though infrequent and may be rephrased to comply with standard usage. Concerning the second part of your message, its grammatical realisation depends on the meaning conveyed. If the

Hi English offers the possibility to work around the problem of having to use awkward constructions such as 'he or she' or 'his and hers'. For example, instead of saying that Someone has left his or her car on the sidewalk , you

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