The driver trook the people who had been waiting for a ride. - Do you find anything wrong in it? But the explanation in the book says, it is wrong. FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE. But even if FOR A RIDE refers PEOPLE, it is not sentence fragment. The

Hi Please add up these numbers  3, 5, 2 These numbers, 3, 5, 2 add up to 10 So in the first (add up) we make a calculation. In the second (add up to) we have the result. add up to - can also be used to mean an amount - his ideas don't add

"to add up" is the process of adding numbers together. "Please add up these numbers." "to add up to sth." is the result. "These numbers add up to eight."

Here is how I understand the sentence with added words: "I've ordered the bulk of our food stores moved onto the ice and the remaining boats put off." So what do you think? I think the same thing. CJ Thank you CalifJim. So we

If teacher takes care nasty students he's got lot's of problems. "take care of" is a phrasal verb. It is used for babies, dogs (pets), and people who cannot take care of themselves. For example: I have taken care of my mother

Bad luck. Yup. Must have something to do with it being Friday the Thirteenth. (I've now edited my original post. Nevertheless, even with the incorrect definition number given, it was only a matter of going down the list of definitions on that

Look at the definitions for each of the phrasal verbs in the links (in blue below). Which do you think makes sense in your sentence? A - wear out (definition 26) B - run over (definition 167) C - take on (definition 113) D - look up (definition

. Out as an adverb for a phrasal verb has a number of meanings. Here, perhaps 'completely', as in run out, test out or 'to a distance/extent' as in spread out, stretch out . I picture it to myself, however, as physically coming out

There are some English words that have many meanings, and you can only discover which meaning is intended from context. My dictionary for instance lists no less than 76 meanings for the word "out". IANL (I am not a lexicographer) but I

Does anyone have any comments about this? Makes very interesting reading from a right-pond perspective. Of course, we Brits are all brought up knowing everything there is to know about AmE, chiefly because we spend most of our formative years