When I was little my dad brought me home a goldfish. I was delighted but something soon went wrong. My parents were talking to some friends who had come to visit us, and I was a bit bored so I went into the kitchen to see my goldfish. The packet

Hi ! Can you help me? My students had to answer the following question "What did you buy in the shops for yourself and your friends? Most of my students started like this: For myself I bought XX and for my friends I bought XX. I

Dear friend, the brown floor is a single noun phrase, you rightly assume so. It is the direct object of the sentence They painted the brown floor. However, when it comes to the second sentence, the analysis differs, the floor brown is not a

Dear friend, the use of affect is correct in your sentence. As has already been said, affect=have an effect on. You could also consider rewording your sentence so that to avoid repetition: The decrease in the production of oil will not affect

Dear friends, just a tiny remark. ...for some jerk to catch me carrying this thing around and get the wrong idea is a to-infinitive clause. It is the subject predicative in the given sentence: All I need is f or some jerk to catch me

Oh, it really seems to be allright. My friend must be wrong then   How do i close this topic?

Greetings, my friend. I looked at this a few hours ago and gave up on it. I'm glad you tackled it. I'm too old to fight about using subjective case for objects. But my instincts let me down on what modifies what. (I know CJ thinks worring

Welcome to the forums. We will help you after you write your first draft. It's not "help" if we simply do an assignment for you. For you to learn, you have to try to do things yourself. Remember that you will need to

1.What does 'He's wound up tighter than a drum' mean? It's a mixed metaphor/simile for tension, but it used to be quite popular. The coil springs which powered old fashioned toys were wound up with a key. We used to wind our

Dear friend, while there exists such a word combination ( ie, mentality level ), its use is extremely rare - once in 400 million words, as shown by the Corpus of Contemporary American English, at least. In your example, the word mentality most