There is a reference very similar to your sentence in urban dictionary for the word "slam-dunk" . This can be used a verb. I am sure you can infer what does this sentence mean. You'd like to check it there. Thanks

Thank you Clive for the critique. For the New York sentence, is there anything wrong or misleading in the construction that needs to be reworded. After the rewording, the original past perfect context has been erased. Maybe I tried too hard to

i've got to do something or i've got a sore throat... these are examples of bad grammar slipping into american slang. Sorry, Anon, but the expression "have got to do something" (meaning "must do something") is quite

I have all required skills stated in your website, as demonstrated in my past career, and I am keen to develop myself, so I think I will be a good employee in your company hi, is the above sentence grammatically correct? the usage of

I just looked thru the many suggested references in the salmon colored section. No help. I remember in the forties we used to send packages "post paid" in the US. This was an alternative to sending them "collect," or

Apparently I did not explain myself well enough. If you look up a word in the dictionary like "eaten", if it is listed at all, they will reference you to the first person singular, "eat". My understanding is that this is the

Hi guys, I've seen those words in some writings but can't figure out the meaning. What does that mean? Is it a common usage? For your reference, some of the writings are as follows below. Thanks pb -- Thus

Good evening, Mister Micawber, the pressure of other work has deterred me from replying to this message of yours as promptly as possible, so I intend to do it in the present post in order to shed light on some important questions.

What is the rule? I don't think there is a rule. You just have to memorize the few nouns in English that are customarily given a gender. Note that you won't be considered wrong if you use "it" to reference such a noun. For

Yes , I understand that, but to further press the issue, would you still use, I walked in the rain, even when you know that this is a specific reference to rain and the reader has no way of knowing which rain I'm talking about? Examples like