He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. (Sir A. Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia) In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was

Here are some literature questions from the book sense and sensibility that i need help in, so please help me. 1. The author spends several pages on the discussion between John and Fanny, during which Fanny convinces her husband to forgo his

it would be nice to hear what the other native speakers have to say on this. According to Radford (Transformational Grammar): Direct speech: "Will I get a degree?" John wondered. Indirect speech: John wondered whether he would get a

I have finished writing an essay, which is due tomorrow. As an ESL student, I have the feeling that I have a lot of grammatical mistakes. Is there any sentence where you wonder what the heck I am trying to say? Hope anyone can help! The

Hi Anon, what Jim said makes a lot of sense, and we discussed it a little in another thread, I think. The point was that teaching completely descriptively is impossible. The teacher would have to say: Mr X says this, Mr Y says that, and Mr Z says

I suppose that a person can be helpful, while a tool can be useful. There's no rule that says when to use either, try to pick up the uses of these words in literature, movies, conversation, etc. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't tell someone

hi everyone, could any one check my body paragraph about " hypertext fiction ",plz?? i did already, but i need to improve it more because the teacher put many comments in it? the teacher wants from me to fix the resources?? i tried

In the U.S., the only version you'll hear in typical conversations is pass . overtake has the same meaning, but it's in a higher register, used in official literature such as driving manuals issued by the goverment, such as Be

Thanks Clive, This is my first foray into grammar with my adult students (I usually teach conversation, literature, news English and the like). So this question really threw me for a loop. I was teaching adverbs at the time (using "soon" in " I

Hi GG Did you actually read my post? For if you had you would have see the following: The fact that other posters appear unaware of the existence 'out of question' as a collocation should show you that this phrase is not common in modern spoken