The only time I'd expect to hear that construction in AmE would be for a calculated effect, never in conversation. Hi, Rick, didn't mean to sound huffy. We've had a few members who enjoy studying literature from past centuries, and

I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

They are grammatically correct. But note that the use of displaced clauses is more characteristic of fictional literature than of ordinary conversation. CJ

Hello Oran, and welcome to English Forums. I see no reason to think your English is not very good indeed. You have no reason to be ashamed; at the same time, you should realize that misunderstandings break out on all forums. A good forum

Hi , I came on this forum because I was looking for help on spelling and good grammar. I have tertiary education; yes I managed with sheer hard work and as a mature student to pass well. I was a migrant as a child from another non speaking

You must use anything instead of something because this phrase is a question. In this case, "to you" is optional, because M are talking only with one person, who is, in this case, F. You can't use "go ahead" but a comma

Hi Sam: You asked in the message (which a moderator deleted as a duplicate), As the subject sugests, Is the English Language in decline due to 'SMS Language'. OR is the English Language simply 'evolving'... Oh yes, the English

Hobbits, monsters and CSI vampires Mexican director Guillermo del Toro is on a quest to catalogue things that go bump in the night. Having tackled Hellboy and Blade, he is about to start filming his two part film version of J R R Tolkien's

okay, I could have avoided describing the expression as that belonging to an agressive character (in the literary sense), but it definately is "alpha dog" behavoir. I can almost see the cowboy with his thumbs in his belt and his hat at a

"Too short a time" would not generally be used in everyday conversation, but it appears a lot in literature. When used appropriately, it is quite acceptable. Mostly we would say "not enough time" nowadays. "mind