Try some preceding information: "Diane began her swimming career in ... would swim 2 miles every week in her training sessions." I'm sure that you could spin it out into a 17 page article and win the Pulitzer Prize, but `By then'

Sorry, that argument won't work. You said "But of course, AmE is also notorious for its use of illogical double ... double negations" of which you speak must be instances of negative concord, and calling negative concord illogical is

Thankfully he seems to be keeping his jobs. I don't ... his personal relationships, other than those directly involved in them? Because his day job is writing political sketches and he passes lofty judgements on politicians, their behaviour

I was on holiday over Christmas and got a glimpse ... all about then? Is this the curse of Angus Deayton? Thankfully he seems to be keeping his jobs. I don't know the details, and don't particularly care. He's a very ... on BBC R4. Why

Many's the time I've criticised the English of Hungarians whom I taught (or married...) only to discover in the fullness of time that they were only using Yankee dialect after all. But having checked the archives, I'm still uncertain

The following quote from that NYT article contains a major error: Dr. Cohen, a good friend of mine ... German vulgarism meaning a crooked lawyer," because the German noun "Scheisser" (lit., 'shitter') does *not* mean

There's a great Web resource called the Prelinger Archives, a collection of "ephemeral" films in the public domain: http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php One film in the archive is called "Young Man's Fancy"

Okay, I'm going to unsnip some bits here to provide clearer context. As the order is intricate, I'll just say that text quoted with any number of ">"s is F. Balducci, asking originally about a line from Hamlet; "}"

Hela Ferjani wrote on 09 Apr 2004: Hello everyone, Does anybody know if there are sites that offer english grammar exercices IN CONTEXT, i.e., PARAGRAPHS and not sentences that should be completed with the correct verb form, modal, prepostion,

In article Sorry to disillusion you, but as a Tyke Born and ... longer speak like that :-(( I can understand it though. Yes, it's a contrived example. If one is trying to illustrate modern usage of ordinary people, it is not useful ... genuine