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I just did a little search on the net and found out that people really don't use those kinds of expressions. So it must be that, as you all say, collective nouns are not good in the structures I wanted to use. I thought they were possible, that's why I asked. Oddly enough, I often use those...

The Antonym of Sin In order to arrive at a suitable antonym for the word “sin”, one must understand the word as it is correctly used in the English language. This explanation will address the meaning of sin and its antonym in an attempt to assist in gaining a more thorough understanding. ...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: 'This is the watch as I lost' -- this sentence is false. No, it is dialect. In some dialects as = that ------- as : THAT -- used to introduce a noun clause and now dialect except in certain negative expressions with know, say, or see that...

Anonymous wrote: Do you figure out how "the" should be used there? It should not be because it is a collective noun. Are you saying we have to take the phrase as it is without asking why "the" is there because it's an idiomatic expression, Paco? Hello Hiro I am sorry but I have to...

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds (quoted from OED) The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of -ing is its use as a gerund, i.e. a substantive with certain verbal functions, particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective, and of governing an...