Most of the time, "film" is treated as an uncountable. (stuff vs. things) I'm out of film. I don't have much film left. I want to buy some 35mm film. I'd like to buy three rolls of 35mm film. (not) I'd like to buy three

The only time I'd expect to hear that construction in AmE would be for a calculated effect, never in conversation. Hi, Rick, didn't mean to sound huffy. We've had a few members who enjoy studying literature from past centuries, and

According to m-w.com, steamroller is the main verb. steamroll is a variant of the same verb. So you can use either was steamrollered through Congress or was steamrolled through Congres s. I think the passive form suggested the legislation was

They're all correct, Anon. The word gotten is generally used as the past participle of the verb "get" in American English, and got is used as the past participle in British English. Thus your first sentence seems to be AmE, and the

We aim to please! Seems like I learned it from programming factory machinery. A sensor which produced a single yes-or-no signal was "discrete." But my correct usages are generally offset by incorrect ones!

A long time ago, in the 19th century, some people sometimes used an before some words that began with "h". I don't think such usage is possible in modern English. CB

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,

Now I am curious... "Prices may vary depending on location" which is the example I tried to use as a parallel to the original question. I saw this usage quite a few times before at McDonalds as different stores have different pricing

do you think the second 'create' is intransitive or transitive? This may be idiosyncratic on my part, but I would call both uses of create in that sentence "absolute usage of a transitive verb". No object is stated, but something

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.