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Hi As GG already metioned it s not exactly accurate to call it a grammar error In your answer have you considerd including a comment that some expressions seem correct but are simply not idiomatic Best wishes Clive

Hi Romanya you are asking about the difference between prescriptivist grammar rules which tell people the correct way to speak and descriptivist which describe the way people actually speak This is the subject of endless heated debates among linguists and teachers In some cases I would agree that...

Huevos So am I correct to assume that your classification of exhausted is adjectival in nature Perhaps this is the difference between how you and I see it For pure fact finding interest I have done some more investigative research Bear in mind my sentence was I am completely exhausted from Your...

Hi But I would like to continue the discussion a bit longer on the use of to range from A to B When you say that things range from A to B you are indicating that there is a significant difference between A and B If not don t use the idea of a range Just speak of A and B or of A B and C a the list...

quote user Fandorin Hi Yes both of the words may be used Simply have has got tend to be used side by side with have has had have had has got have has had But the expression had got is rarely used in contemporary grammar quote I agree with you wholly Yankee Simply I wanted to explain the...

New2grammar wrote What s the difference between out of reach of and out of reach for For example Keep all sharp object out of reach of children The average rent for a one bedroom apartment is out of reach for minimum wage earners Thanks in advance Hi N2g just gessing The first one seems to be...

Hi Barb A further problem is that the negative and interrogative forms of used to do are not used anywhere near as often as the affirmative form So we aren t used to seeing them in print either Hi Jackson As regards using the ing form of a verb after the word to I ve found that it is often easier...

According to The Oxford Companion to the English Language were is usually used in if I were you But in other cases it has been replaced by was bringing it in line with other verbs where the simple past tense is used for expressing hypotheses about the past and future eg if I only knew how Also...

Hi everybody i m new to this forum I m an English student and of course i have one grammar question for you My question is what is the right way to say look forward to do sth look forward to doing look forward doing looking forward to do looking forward to doing looking forward doing Is any of...