When it comes to above and below used as adjectives, I prefer them after the noun. Some people insist that they can be used in front of the nouns, but that grates on my ear as much as the asleep man or saying We did that the before time instead

Hi, What do these 2 prefixes mean? de- Derived from the Latin de = from, down from. eg activate / deactivate make active, make 'from' being active compose / decompose bring elements together, take elements 'from' each other e- a

"to run" and "to run on" are two different things. Rex> They are indeed different verbs and as far as I know, they're Rex> considered as such by all linguists. But not lexicographers. Most dictionaries would put

CyberCypher> I don't think anyone would use it in that context, CyberCypher> except to make a linguistic joke. "to run" ... simpler to verbs with separable prefixes in German: "abgeben" and "aufgeben" are

LEE Sau Dan wrote on 19 Jun 2004: CyberCypher> I don't think anyone would use it in that context, CyberCypher> except to make a linguistic joke. "to run" and "to run on" are two different things. I'd even say

Depemds on the context. In the context of a 400m race, it does not. CyberCypher> I don't think anyone would use it in that context, CyberCypher> except to make a linguistic joke. "to run" and "to run on" are two