In Nouns^x, Expressions^x, Negatives^x

That lesson cost me almost a hundred dollars They first settled here almost 75 years ago or Almost 1000

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours " The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

I've see some posts here about the use of dare and as I saw some tips in a grammar book, so I decided to post them here: The expression dare (to) is most commonly used to refers to someone who has the courage to take a risk. In the negative form the to is optional She dared to tell...

Another set of patterns occurred to me. These sometimes give learners trouble, and it's a good idea to practice them until they are automatic. They are drills on 'subject pronoun + auxiliary verb' contractions. Type X1: he's, she's, I'm, you're, we're, they're Type X2: he'll,...

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...

There's some differentiation between the two here, they seem to be considered synonyms only for the meaning 2: --------- till Function: preposition 1 chiefly Scotland a : to a place of arrival : through to : as far as < till an end> b : to or toward a limit or...

Dear madam / sir, Being possessor of an exploitation right concerning an innovating technology of communication described below, I solicit your attention in order to know if any utilization would eventually interest you. Kind regards, (letters into brackets are readable with a...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: 'This is the watch as I lost' -- this sentence is false. No, it is dialect. In some dialects as = that ------- as : THAT -- used to introduce a noun clause and now dialect except in certain negative expressions with know, say, or see that...

Hi, I've read on another thread that "me neither"and "me either" are not grammatically correct. I assume the objection would be that the phrase should be 'I, neither'. This certainly is not wrong, but it's very formal. 'Me, too' seems to me to be common enough and clear enough to be...

The talks on the Linguists Forum are preserved in a Japanese site. Q) Hello, I'm a graduate student at a university in Japan. In English class at Japanese high schools, students were told to put "the" before the name of musical instrument. But I often come across musical instruments without...