Hello, everybody! I'm a student of English who needs your help with some idioms in order to analyse them for my graduation paper. The topic of my research is synonymy among idiomatic expressions. For the purpose of this research I have

Liat. If you insist the sentence is correct, can you please educate me which one of the following definitions meets the grammatical requirement of the sentence in question? For the benefit of a slight doubt, I will invite other's opinions.

Normal 0 Is a idiom the same as a collection? I am guessing it is. Also I was wondering about how valid idioms are in proper English. Most seem to be slang, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' or

Hi Kooyeen I have never concentrated on learning any particular variety of English because it has always been my objective to acquire as good a command of the languagae as possible. Limiting my efforts to just one variety would constitute a

The past participle of drag is dragged. "Drug" is informal or non-standard English, whereas dragged is formal or standard English. Some words can have two acceptable past participles: I dived or I dove; I lit the candle or I lighted the

"Bag and Baggage" is an idiom (British English) - it means"all the things that you own". We were told we'd have to be out of the house, bag and baggage, in a week's time. In American English, a similar phrase is

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. regarding, as regards, in regard(s) to, with regard(s) to In and with regard to, regarding, and as regards are all Standard, synonymous prepositions,

Hi Openmind Have you ever considered changing your moniker to "DoubtingThomas"? (Just teasing you a little!) To put it in the simplest possible terms, using 'of' instead of 'to' when telling time is basically simply a

So, "got" in last sentence is not a past of the verb "get", it is same meaning as "have" in first sentence Hi Jun-god, yes, "got" is sometimes equivalent to "have", not only in the idiom "have