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Huevos, So am I correct to assume that your classification of “exhausted” is adjectival in nature? Perhaps, this is the difference between how you and I see it. For pure fact finding interest, I have done some more investigative research: Bear in mind, my sentence was “I am completely exhausted...

Hi Yoong Liat, I honestly don't believe that there is a 'correct' form of OK (to use your own preferred version of the word). As someone as well-versed in English as yourself will know, it is an informal expression of very long standing in English; it dates back to the late1920s at...

Hello: The letter is too long to revise word-by-word here. You make a lot of small errors, most of which you can correct by going over an English grammar and usage book. To get you started I'll give you specific suggestions on the second paragraph. I don't understand the first part. Are...

Clive, thanks for your post again.I do not mind your asking this question at all. It should make you wonder indeed.I do not believe it is matter of advanced or not. There are two kinds of questions ESL students would ask: one is "English questions" such as "How do you say when...

Do not worry, that is why I said "Even if", and I got you precisely. "When have you had enough?" is just one of examples pulled from Google to prove "When have you ...?" sentences are actually used in real life although prohibited in some Japanese hardcore English...

What you learned is correct. However, in everyday conversation or informal chatty writing, people aren't as precise as the grammar books, and it's possible that someone might use the first sentence even if someone else was going to cut their hair. It's the sort of thing that...

Hi there,Please take a look at these two sentences.I am thinking of cutting my hair short. I am thinking of getting my hair cut short.From what I learned from my english grammar class, the first sentence is not quite right unless you actually cut your hair by yourself.But i saw in quite a few...

"For why" sounds wrong to me too, but I think it's pretty futile to look for "precise rules" that forbid it. There are probably dozens of expressions that you use every day that make little sense when analysed grammatically.

Something to chew on:THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language,and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult,educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals...

Hi,... and somebody says it's subjunctive. See also:http://www.englishforums.com/English/ChangingTenses/dqcdx/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/WhichSentencesAreCorrect/zjbhp/post.htm