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Applicant: Hello. I'm here for that job for which you need a technician. My grammar is good. For example, I never end a sentence with a preposition. *smile*Employer: Oh, that don't matter. *smile* We gotta do some stuff with computers, websites, y'know, crap like that. *light a cigar*...

Hela wrote: Dear teachers, 1) How would you qualify this time of genitive, please? Which "title" would you give it? Is it some sort of "human activities"? but I don't really like this. love's spirit, science's influence, my life's aim, duty's call . wow! I remember genitive as a Latin case...

Hello Blitz 1. 'Ahead of schedule' is fine - it's the usual phrase. 'Before schedule' is used too, but it's much less common. In newspapers and official reports you'd be much more likely to find 'ahead of schedule'. 'Awaken' > 'awoken'. 2. Almost right: 'I wouldn't have drunk, if you hadn't...

It is perhaps better to dispense with the idea that there is only one English that is correct. In a nutshell American and British English are but two dialects of ENGLISH. "They have enough respect for the language to use correct spelling, clear enunciation and to observe the correct use of...