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The response from the United States of America to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIMessage from Her Majesty the Queen. • Let us start with your header, the use of Majesty. Here is how it is derived: After the fall of Rome, Majesty was used to describe a Monarch of the very highest rank -...

To Cool Breeze about Champions League. Actually I would not have known whether to put an apostrophe or not in this case (I'm not a football enthusiast). In general you're right, that plural nouns are not often used adjectivally. the exception is when a noun is normally used in the plural. As we...

CalifJim wrote:Can you give examples?No. That was the point of the "maybe" and the question marks.Here's another "maybe":Maybe it's just that the original sounds like a statement of a definition, and in that context "where" sounds too informal to me. We'd never see "where" used that way in a...

This is an ongoing difficulty for students, Salam: Some sports, those that are games, we 'play'-- play tennis, play football, play cricket, play rugby, play hockey. For the martial arts, and a few other skill-oriented sports we usually 'practice'-- practice judo, practice kyudo, practice...