Hi, What exactly does 'proper' mean in such usages? Real, genuine, strictly speaking. eg I don't live in Toronto proper. I live in a small community that is just outside the boundary of Toronto. Can we use phrases like

Hi again, Can someone tell me how do you distinguish between the 2 meanings of the "s o me"? Well one of them means "a large number or amount of sth (E.g. it was some surprise that i heard the news.)" and as for the

Hi, Could you please let me know whether my usage of 'have been' is correct or not in the context of given conversation. Q- What's your job profile? Ans - I have been working as a Network engineer for 2 and half years. ( I meant to

"He has got greater credit than he deserves" Sorry my bad for not giving the complete context I thought sentence would suffice. The whole case is this: My friend says "our PM has not got the credit for the reforms he did in back

"Me and John went to the fair" is not grammatically correct in standard English. You would not say "Me went to the fair", so why would you say "Me and John went to the fair"? In reality, the "Me and

Thanks for posting that, dimsumexpress. It's very interesting. I'm pleased to see that most sources seem to be endorsing the use of "should" in this context in BrE -- good news for me, as I think that's the way I

Thanks for posting that, dimsumexpress. It's very interesting. I'm pleased to see that most sources seem to be endorsing the use of "should" in this context in BrE -- good news for me, as I think that's the way I most

Magic, I would like to share this with you. This is how I feel about learnig the article usage. First and foremost, entrust your ears and eyes to the mainstream media that you have confidence in. By that, I mean CNBC, The

Non-causative: The ball dropped. I understand "Julia dropped the ball" and "The ball was dropped (by Julia), but the ball "dropped"? This is basically the same as "The ball fell". When a heavy truck

With respect to the first three, in conversation, they are all about the same. That having been stated, none of them are very good. Contemporary usage discourages opening the sentence with either a pronoun reference that is not quite