What do you mean by 'idiomatic'? Are you saying that "Wow! She's too beautiful!" means 'not really beautiful'? I know for a fact that too means also 'very' in a formal register, for example: "Thank you,

Sorry to butt in like this. I'm sure Clive will give his expert advice but let me try to explain it the way I see it (from a non native speaker's point of view). Regarding the New York sentence, since both the living/working

As far as I know, "Have you any idea?" is a very old BrE usage. Nowadays, you'll hardly hear it anywhere. In AmE, it has never been used at all. Native BrE and AmE speakers, please correct me if I'm mistaken. As far as I know,

Yes, your sentence is "good" English. In so-called choice English, some writers may prefer "taller than we" because they feel the complete sentence is "taller than we are tall." In regular speech, most native speakers

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.

Two veteran members and one senior member have recommended quite rightly that you should use burst/ burst/ burst. For your information, however, one famous grammar book points out that native speakers throughout the years have used various forms

Hello, I wrote down all of the notes I had for you on my whiteboard, and because I need to clear up room I'm just going to post what I have written down instead of erasing it and wasting it. Practically every problem in your paper fits into

I agree with your reasoning and comments completely. 1. In the first sentence a comma seems preferable after Joe since one gets the impression that the person who utters the sentence is holding the message, just one message, in his hand right

Hi, The at construction is rather more vivid and tends to conjure up a stronger image (and some language purists prefer it as being closer to the usage in physical senses) while the to construction follows the analogy of more abstract verbs such

Hi, I have problem in undertanding the usage of have and had in the below sentence. The recent results in company have had a positive effect on employees.