By Nouns, Expressions

I think you mean the sentence Never listen to fear, right? Listen is an imperative and no inflection is ever used in English imperatives. Imperatives like this look like infinitives, which should make it easy for you to learn English. Except for certain fixed phrases and idiomatic expressions,...

Hmm... this seems to be another case of varying terminology. I have no objection to calling a participle an adjective, I'm just not used to that. Nor am I used to many other grammatical terms used here, like "a noun phrase". Don't get me wrong! I certainly don't mean...

When an expression is in quotes, it usually indicates that it's a rather special or new compound noun, such that looking the two words up individually in the dictionary wouldn't give you a clue as to the meaning.Web sites have "servers" which handle the incoming and outgoing...

Hi,How should I write what looks to be headings of methods and criteria. I am not sure how should one arrange/write the wording of the headings (especially in terms of countability and uncountability of the nouns involved).Some examples:Methods:Point of contact -- using opportunities to build...

I don't have it. Do you have any kind of reference?Edit. In desperation I went to Urban Dictionary, and the way they list the many nouns which are modified by the adjective "ultimate" to make common expressions, or maybe compound nouns, could entice one to think it might be a...

Hi,I think I asked this a long time ago and Nona answered something like this.a majority of discussion -- (to indicate) specificthe majority of discussion -- (to indicate) conceptualCan you tell me about these more? Off-hand, I just see these as indefinite and definite (a chair/the chair, a group...

Hello Hela, yes, it's nice to see you too! I'm not posting here much at the moment, because my pc is defective; but I hope to be re-kitted-out shortly... If I say that you're harping on about X, I mean that you are obsessively talking about X, in an irritating and excessive way....

I know that this repeats much of what was said above by others, but with complex topics sometimes just reading the same information with many different phrasings helps a little. I bought it at Target. Here Target refers to the entire company, regardless of which particular store the purchase...

That is interesting indeed and I agree with you Old Man Gordon. I am from Finland and according to my Finnish-English dictionary I should say "Finland is leading 2-0" without using the plural verb and"The Finns are leading 2-0" when using a plural expression. But I guess this...

No! Both drunk and drunken are used as modifiers before nouns naming persons: a drunk customer; a drunken merrymaker. Only drunk occurs after a linking verb: He was not drunk, just jovial. The actor was drunk with success. The modifier drunk in legal language describes a person whose blood...