Is there any difference between meanings of following two sentences? a) He is a director with proven capability in making successful movies. b) He is a director with proven capability to make successful movies. Thanks, Sachin

To summarize all that I said, would you buy the following: It's such a pleasure to see you- countable usage,fine It's my pleasure to serve you-uncoutable, fine He finds great pleasures in sharing...Plural/ coutable usage, fine

The subjunctive doesn't exist in only the present tense of if clauses. All other present tense subjunctive constructions use the subjunctive. Correct? I don't understand "present tense subjunctive constructions". If there is such

What is the difference between the sentences in meaning? Somebody told me that it depends on the context. I would like to know when the article can be skipped. Ex. "The man and woman" as opposed to "The man and the

doubtful to you that the past participle form of intransitive nouns like "vanish" and "sleep" could function as adjectives? Just as an aside, we should remark the difference between the present and past participles in this

I know some nouns can be either countable or uncountable. when I look for something in my dictionaries, I can notice a subtle difference between nouns. Some nouns have their definitions starting with " " In OALD7, and other nouns have

What is the difference between 'use' (noun) and 'usage'? When can I use 'use'? When can I use 'usage'? Can I use these words interchangeabily?

Hello, like the other people here I agree that prepositions are hard to learn, so many of them have to be committed to memory. However, there are three basic prepositions for time and for location that are easy to memorize. I would like to share

4.One more thing: Is the usage of the "two" correct above? i.e. is it fine that I don't put any noun after it in the particular usage above? Yes, it is quite common to say "what is the difference between the two",

1.Is badly an informal word in the meaning of very much? 2.Can we use "get" in the meaning of obtain, when talking about abstract meanings? like in: Where can I get the "absolute truth from"...? the same for