Hello all, Here are my two bits. Holland is not quite a nickname. Industry and, especially, a brewer of beer in green bottles have long been promoting the misnomer "Holland" because it saves some time and ink. They even use it as an

Hello, like the other people here I agree that prepositions are hard to learn, so many of them have to be committed to memory. However, there are three basic prepositions for time and for location that are easy to memorize. I would like to share

Hi , Could you please explain the verb usage(reserves and rose) and parts of speech in the below sentence. The company reserves rose by 2000 to 12000 during the last week from 100 a week earlier.

Hello, Each year 3600 private gardens welcome visitors to (an?) elegant ambience, (which is?) complemented by informative talks and tours, relaxing music and delightful plants. Is the word usage OK? Regards, Vijay

I found this amazingly perplexing.. I hope I've done nothing to disuade you from being adamant. I haven't had the advantage of your formal training in grammar, and when I think these things through in terms of what I know to be accepted

In "I saw her lying on / in the grass," vs. "I saw her lying down on / in the grass," down is taken by the native ear to describe the relation between I and her , not between her and the grass . (Of course " down "

a distinction can be made between sit and sit down , and according to Webster's disciples the same is true about English too: I know that speakers of English often use the English language indiscriminately giving little heed to

Jander, I am wondering and I can't help but feel the need to ask you. Yove have been talking about a tree diagram with several posted questions and several people have come to offer you help. Have you forgotten something? At least an

Is it always the case (or mostly) to use atributive nouns when it's regarding to something general, 's if it's regarding to something specific There do seem to be many examples where there is this tendency. Apart from the ones

. Did "advising letter" sound ambiguous? -- No. It is not an English phrase. And suppose "a letter of advisement" is used in the sense of singular usage, which agrees with "PIN activationinformation" in #1,