I don't pretend to be able to predict what lies in store for the world but the future looks rather bleak to me. Mankind seems to be heading for bigger problems. More and more people are hungry as this New York Times article shows. There are

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The term Arte Povera was introduced in a time where artists were taking a radical stance at the end of the sixties. As in the rest of Europe and North America, the late sixties was a period of social upheaval in Italy. Artists began attacking the

Hello Superblack, The expressions Here... be in British English and There... be in American English with a personal pronoun as subject are used without inversion because there are no reasons for it - it is not a question like Where are you? ,

Hi, Vincent, I want to tell you it is great that you are trying to write essays now. This will help your English a lot . Last Sunday was a fine day. I was waiting for a bus at the bus stop. Suddenly I heard the screeching of brakes.

My friend ( a non native English speaker, Spanish in fact )and a translator by profession , recently had to write a report about an assault that he experienced. When writing about the actual words that were said to him prior to the assault , he

I don't think they're watching it to learn English, it's just for fun. The fact that he or she is questioning those lines, means that he/she tries to understand it, and isn't just watching it without any process in mind. I'm

So, if I were to construct a sentence that began as a question but ended as a sentence, which punctuation mark should I use. For instance: "What did you think of him because I thought he was great." OR "What did you think of him

Where seems appropriate, but do we all agree that it basically stands for the defining version of "in which" and it refers to gold? Alan Greenspan is well versed in rhetoric so I doubt there is a questioning to do about his English.

As a general guideline, whom is considered rather formal, so sentence 1 is fine in a formal setting. In spoken English we like to put the preposition at the end, but whom is really too formal here. Better... Who do I give the money to?