By Expressions, Analogies

Hello, I'm sorry I have more than one question today, and I will post them all here because I'm supposed to hand this part in on Sunday. Help me explain what's in red please: A) The implications 1 for parents and educational policy makers is to realize that intense intellectual input and...

Schetin, I am still trying to dial to the right frequency so that we can communicate. I am afraid I have failed because I realize we are not talking in the same wave length. I find your pattern of thought difficult to understand. I once heard this analogy "there is only a thin line between a...

Hi, GG. I googled the phrases "box spring is in good" and "box springs are in good" and the results seem to be 68 and 12 respectively, so the phrase "box spring is in good" seems to be in vogue?? (Is this the right BLOCKED EXPRESSION. I think I can lay out the rationale like...

Yoong Liat wrote:Hi guys Why do we say 'a three-doored vehicle' and 'a three-roomed flat'? I believe 'a three-door vehicle' and 'a three-room flat' are also correct grammatically. There are no such words as 'doored' and 'roomed'. How did the former version originate?The -ed ending is frequently...

This is an unusual use of to. It is used by analogy with sentences like The actors played to an enthusiastic crowd. The expression after to tells to whom the acting is directed, so to speak, while telling, more obliquely, how the action was received, i.e., enthusiastically. It is this more...

Diamondrg, It seems you are stuck on the idea that as goes with that in the sample sentence! It doesn't! chances goes with that. The chances that you will ... good / not as good / not so good also goes with chances. The chances are good. The chances are not as good. The chances are not...

ah... it seems nobody is reading. Anyway, this thing has gone really too far - fetched. No offense, but that it pains and is time - consuming to do the a - level is a rather common opinion among high school students. At any rate, this is a conclusion that information available to me has led...

O, I thought you were, as your quote is in Chinese. Yes, L(x) is a function indicating whether a language is 'native' or 'foreign' to a person. It is not restricted to Language Acquisition though, as it is widely used in such topics as Language Teaching (see for example, Eric Hawkin's...

You are right, Paco. The word 'problem' is definitely a countable noun. That's why when I first encountered the expression 'have x problem -ing,' perhaps decades ago, I thought it's a rather unusual construction. This peculiarity compelled me to memorize the expression by rote then. Along the...

I don't think the "opportunity" meaning of "to get to do something" enters into this question, but rather "I've got to do something" meaning "I have to do something". I think that maybe only the British use the past tense of "I've got to do it": "I had got to do it" = "I had to do it". And...