By Metaphors, Clauses

Hey guys now please check my paragraph again for mistakes and some suggestions to add good metaphors or improvements. Thanks ! The computer lies over the wooden table against the mid-wall of my room. Its gradual help in my studies supported me like caretaker. Usually my spelling and grammar...

Hello Grammar Geek, thanks for helping me here! Well I don’t understand the previous post. Giant size, are you saying about speaker size I should emphasis for metaphor? My light-brown table placed on the opposite side opposite side of the bed from what? of the bed,Don't...

Hi, (1) What has sensitized me in more recent years from this metaphor is to also say to us that everyone faces storms. Sometimes, those storms come out of huge systems. They may be a tornado or an avalanche or maybe a car accident, when "there is innocence"---no control, vulnerable to...

Although you do not brag with tall tales, you are actually more competent than adulterer."Brag with" does sound weird, as does the usage of "tall tales", which are similar to myths. The comparison of a good lover to an adulterer is rather coarse and definitely not a compliment. Also,...

Dear Bloody Helmet, If you want to reach a box on a shelf, you are given a ladder. If you want to reach a fact in the second clause, you are given a 'given' in the first. It is not a good metaphor, perhaps. Kind regards, Goldmund

Hello I was taught in school we should not use "different than". But now I am getting inclined to believe "different than" is not so bad. I feel "different than" is more versatile in use than "different from" because the latter should be followed by a noun phrase. OED says about this issue in...

I think these sentences still have a lot of room for improvement. Can you help me check them. Tell me how to correct them. I would appreciate your help. Thank you very much. Cleft sentence It is after breaking the record of most hits in a single season that Ichiro Suzuki has become an Asian...

Hello Sextus 1) 'Rather' here sounds slightly strange; it's almost implicit. You would get the same sense if you left it out. 2) The difficulty here is that most of the words you could use are metaphorical at some level (tied, linked, etc), and there is no satisfactory metaphor for the way a...