ALC, I am going to take a chance on getting flagged for saying this but this is the honest truth. I see you are trying very hard to reach the level of English proficiecy which will normally take people many years to achieve. I take it that

Please give me your suggestion on how to master the usage of prepositions? Is there any book (US english) that would help me? I don't know of a specific book, but the problem may be more related to idioms than to prepositions. Even if you know

Each of the following sentences may contain an error in grammar, idiom or usage. If there is an error, it will appear in one of the underlined portions. Answers are given at the answer part. First try to answer by yourself, and then check it

Hello, What do you think is the best word for the gap in the sentence: The president threatened to take action against the newspapers if they didn’t mend their ....... A.wrongs B.ways C.errors D.manners

Used without a question mark, "Was my face red!" would almost certainly have an exclamation point. It's a stand-alone exclamation expressing extreme embarrassment, usually over some stupid error of great magnitude. Of course it may

Hi Avangi, Thank you for the explanation. I looked up "go all weak in the knees", do you mean "you like redhead girl?" but the idiom is "go weak at the knees." Any difference? Yahoo has "go weak on

1) To add insult to injury, he made another mistake. What is the other way of expressing the phrase" to add insult to injury"? thanks

Sorry, I made a mistake. It said Transitive only. I must've looked it up quickly. I'll take advantage of this thread and ask if there are other ways (idioms or phrasal verbs) to convey the same idea of explaining away.

Hi Nickydee: Please don't use all the different color highlights in your postings. It makes your question difficult to understand. I have put some causes in line. You have correctly identified the errors. Hi i have done the following:

I'm not sure what you mean by 'what caused the error?', errors have many causes. 1. I "walk-id" to school today. - Should be pronounced walkd . The speaker assumes that the written form 'walked' has two syllables. 2.