Coloraday, One is ashamed whose embarrassment and humiliation are mixed sometimes with a sense of guilt and always with the awareness of being discredited or disgraced by one's own or vicariously another's shameful or indecorous act,

Thanks a lot for your complete answer. But in your argument you have not attended the difference between embarrassed with the meaning of constrained and the one with the meaning of ashamed (which ,I think, is the suitable meaning if the answer is

I am not a native speaker and it is always easier for me to choose an appropriate Latin borrowing than to choose from words of Anglo-Saxon origin for one simple reason: Latin very much resembles a large set of bricks and that makes it easy to

But what part of speech is "missing" there? Consider these samples: My heart went cold The phone went dead The tyre went flat They all bear an unmistakable resemblance to "went missing", and seeing as

What is the figure of speech used in the poem,'Somebody's Mother' by Mary Dow?

What do you think of this rewording: - That we can't afford it is the simple reason we aren't going. It occurs in informal speech, as you know. Sorry, but the sentence I posted above strikes me as more formal than the original version. In

How can i change them wihout adding new words. I'm no asleep. No! I'm asleep! I'm not asleep. You speak a very good English. (except "Your English is very good") Impossible. You speak very good English. Everybody was

What do you think of this rewording: - That we can't afford it is the simple reason we aren't going. It occurs in informal speech, as you know. In no way does it change the grammatical nature of that, of course. I cannot think of relative

Hi 1) was there --> You could try making the 'th' sound a bit more like a /z/. Then the tongue won't necessarily touch the back of the upper teeth anymore, but that's quite acceptable in my opinion. Note: the 's' in

Yes, thoughts are like speech: they can be either direct or indirect: I thought/said, "Now I'm really in trouble!" I thought/said that I was really in trouble then!