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Right. I was trying to make a joke (sort of a pun on the two meanings - the verb and the adjective) - A.

Thanks for your reply Mister Micawber. I was just wondering since both verb forms are okay, do you reckon the '-ing' form (be going to his brain) would create a greater sense of action? Or it wouldn't make a difference. I'm glad you found my joke funny ; ) I actually got the...

Hi, Why do you think it should be passive? Only transitive verbs (i.e. those that need to be followed by direct objects, without any preposition) have passive forms, and " happen " is intransitive. To put it simply (and only as a rough guideline): Write => transitive verb: ...

Hi KVE, Welcome! <<<<Variations in noun number and determiners: . - If he is a pianist or a singer, yes, you can say. "he performed ". Note the brackets. . "Perform" is a verb with broad meaning. He performed poorly on the project= He didn't show his best...

Hee, hee. It was a joke! What do you call the action ...? I call it crude! I call it a crude action! www.m-w.com: crude: marked by the primitive, gross, or elemental or by uncultivated simplicity or vulgarity CJ PS. I don't know of a verb that covers such a specific gesture.

. pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect ? Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A noun Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation. I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because I don't think it's in anyone's active...

My apologies for introducing a joke! The "universal falsehood" reference is a complete joke! It doesn't matter whether what is reported is universally true or unversally false. What's important is that in the speaker's mind it is universally (or eternally, if you wish)...

this way and maybe in 1000 years it won t have anything to do with the way it s written Jim Well I

The verb form is correct. Some might word it, "had been given women's names" -- your structure could imply a specific woman in mind for each hurricane. (The old joke was that this is the reason the word isn't "himmicanes" .)

You've got a phrasal verb pass on here, and the particle at the end of a phrasal verb can't be combined with another word, so you can't use onto . on to is what you need. Compare: Pass your papers in to the teacher. (to pass in) It took a while, but Charlie finally caught on to the...