so i'm on to passivisation now and having a couple troubles. Can these sentences be passivised, 1) these flowrs wilt easly under the hot sun - I don't think it can because there is no direct object and "under the sun" is an

so i'm on to passivisation now and having a couple troubles. Can these sentences be passivised, 1) these flowrs wilt easly under the hot sun - I don't think it can because there is no direct object and "under the sun" is an

Hi cwtch. I'm not convinced it's as simple as you say, nor am I convinced it's not. To me ones is the plural of one the noun. Look at that stack of ones on the table; that must be a thousand dollars. This seems like the one legitimate

Look in your dictionary for meanings. Dictate often takes a direct object noun clause beginning with "what." That is more common than a prepositional phrase beginning with "on." Here are some examples from COCA . The pope

Actually, those sentences work well in American English (which you'd think would be Anglish, but it's actually Inglish) completely unstressed as well. But the way I hear my British friends speak, it always strikes my ear as though the

Same as "Enjoy" in American usage. I for one will never get used to it. Enjoy WHAT? is MY reaction. Once, tongue firmly in cheek, I admonished a restaurant hostess who bade us "Enjoy!" after seating us that "enjoy" is

The usage of the verb "agree" here is Americanism creeping into British English. Americans are always trying to cut corners. Whether you like it or not, it is here to stay. Which usage do you mean? The transitive one? But that usage is

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/living/9347623.htm Using the comma correctly is often a matter of tempo Not long ago I ended one of my scholarly dissertations with an admonitory word: "Let us think upon these things, and go in

See another thread for my comments on this subject. One can always find BrE speakers ready to ascribe any unwelcome or innovative language change to "Americanism". They are often mistaken, of course. Not all of us. I am quite aware that

The following are representative: O! I could divide myself and ... First Part of King Henry the Fourth. (1914 Oxford ED.) I think, with OED1, that this (1596) is probably the true text; but we must note that the Folio ... milk'; OED's next