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There may be alternate ways to say it, but in American English it would be on . on a person (or group) is used in many expressions besides commit a foul on a person , many (but not all) of them with a similar negative meaning. an attack on someone an assault on someone inflict harm...

Technically quite means completely . This meaning applies more to the negative, where I'm not quite finished means I'm not completely finished , but neither one of these means *I'm not rather finished . In fact, rather isn't used in the negative. In the affirmative, quite can be used nearly...

This is what I found at http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g09.html The expression I could not care less originally meant 'it would be impossible for me to care less than I do because I do not care at all'. It was originally a British saying and came to the US in the 1950s. It...

The talks on the Linguists Forum are preserved in a Japanese site. Q) Hello, I'm a graduate student at a university in Japan. In English class at Japanese high schools, students were told to put "the" before the name of musical instrument. But I often come across musical instruments without...