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Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemn ed or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive : alphabetism. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in...

Hi Ditch, Welcome to the forums. Yes, in the future, it would be better to ask only one type of question in a thread. If they are related, then of course they can be in the same post.

I was just interested to know if it is possible to use common fixed expressions like by bus in a different way by saying something more like by local bus . But as I have understood it is not possible to break these fixed expressions and you can only say, for example, by bus , but not by local...

Good advice for beginners using "existential there ". You've got four combinations to disentangle here. "existential there " means there exists -- such-and-such "has existence". "locative there " means in that location -- at that place . The two...

I know that this repeats much of what was said above by others, but with complex topics sometimes just reading the same information with many different phrasings helps a little. I bought it at Target. Here Target refers to the entire company, regardless of which particular store the purchase...

Sorry, I didn't explain that very well. Articles are one of the most difficult grammar points to master. Sometimes it's better to remember set expressions. We always say to have a population o f not to have the population of . And the population of __ is .... not ...

1) The committee changed its recommendations because__ the privous ones were too difficult for most people to follow a) that felt that b) it felt that --> The answer is a but I don't understand why it's not the other The correct answer is b , so there is a mistake in the...

Articles are omitted in expressions that have opposites or words that can be likened to opposites: from east to west, from morning till evening Salesman and opera singer aren't really opposites but the author has chose to omit the articles just the same. That is his choice, using the...

Viceidol wrote: Hello,everyone I saw a grammar rule in my grammars books (not only one book) and I have some doubt about it. Normally, we say: We sent for a doctor and a nurse. But my grammars books say this will have the same meaning as the above one: We sent for a doctor and...

Grammar Geek wrote: Tell me about a time when you ... Tell me about a situation in which you... Tell me about a place where you... That stuff always gives me trouble... I would leave out the particle after expressions of time (That was the day I met... - instead of: the day when I met),...