By Expressions

Re: Correct my anti-love poem!!!

Hi FSI have written exactly one sonnet in my life and a few verses for songs I have written. What is wrong and what is right in a poem is very much a matter of opinion. I have "corrected" just a few expressions that caught my ear. Some other parts of your poem might have jarred in some...

Re: need to back-shift?

«I feel for those two examples, since they are not concern with someone's feelings, but pertain to factual scenarioes like being married and a candy being on sale yesterday and today, the need to back-shift isn't there for both of those situations» I don't think it's too deep....

Re: my pigs fly!

Hi, Yes, indeed, I do love you, love you My, my, pigs might fly" What does the bolded expression mean? I'm halluciting? No. 'My, my!' is a common expression of surprise. 'Pigs might fly' (with slight variations in wording) is an idiomatic way of saying...

my pigs fly!

"Yes, indeed, I do love you, love you My, my, pigs might fly" What does the bolded expression mean? I'm halluciting? Thanks!

Re: taco short of a combo plate

I've never heard that one, but there are SO MANY expressions to say that. A couple sandwiches short of a full picnic, a few clowns short of a full circus, etc. etc. I just means that he's "incomplete" (mentally). Thicker than a brick is a bit more natural than dumber than a...

Please look through my narrative essay and correct grammar please

Do you think the title is relevant to the story? I want to say like "For all your good hope, one day, he will know it" or "Don't regret for your good doing" but can't come up with any good title. Would you mind suggesting me any? If not, it is fine. Thank you so...

Re: Help with a sentence

Yes. It's called 'locative inversion' or 'locative fronting'. The phrase that tells the location may be moved to the front of the sentence.The sofa is in the living room. / In the living room is the sofa.It is probably more common with indefinite expressions.A sofa is in...

narrowly avoid

While learning the expression "close, but no cigar", I came across this sentence: It appears in U. S. newspapers widely from around 1949 onwards. For example, a story from The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, November 1949, where The Lima House Cigar and Sporting Goods Store narrowly avoided...

Re: tried but true

.1-- This is a fixed expression: Tried-and-true (adj, 1792) Tested and proved to be worthy or good.2-- Your argument, Petr, is unfortunately as illogical as the original misquote. Methods cannot be outworn; if they work, they are used again and again.

Re: whats a complete predicate??

.A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject.An appositive is 'an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence , the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the...