Raja, let me make a number of essential clarifications: 1. ' Hence , that the 'do'-construction in "Who went to the park?" is not possible or at least less preferable (which of the two is it in your opinion?) in "Who

Hi, Which game are you talking about? (two games) I assume both games are finished. I'm talking about the game before. Or I'm talking about the game before that one. Both are OK. The exact context may make one sentence

Is "a" supposed to be "at"? I can hear it loud and clear. It's 'a' all right. Do you have a secondary reason for assuming that? No, just that's what I stumbled upon at Wikipedia. Would need more context to

Wikipedia defines "verbing" as the creation of verbs from other parts of speech. (An example would be the creation of the verb form "verbing" from the noun "verb.") The context seems to be linguistics. I don't

Thanks for the replies. Due to assimilation, One can produce MPR instead of NPR;one can hear MPR Another example: " S n P" is heard as SMP, and is produced as SMP instead of SNP. By the way, raindoctor, are you a native speaker with

Without context, I'd say that they are interchangeable. Keep in mind that either would be used only in quite casual speech.

short 'the' (before a consonant sound) French le Oddly e nough, a large p e r centage of unstressed English vow e ls "reduce to schwa" in rap i d speech, including those underlined here. It varies, depending on the

"Yes, but he didn't go to the park, though." Does the second comma in the second sentence have any right being there? A comma is often used in this context. In speech, a short pause is used instead of the comma. It helps understand

double (like twice ) is an adverb (of degree) in this context. It modifies size . (Look up double and twice at www.m-w.com.) CJ

hey, I wonder where the phrase " , where art thou?" comes from. And could anyone explain the meaning to me as well, although I can imagine it. I've seen it quite often recently in different variations, like in the movie "O