Is there a difference between zero in on and zero on in? Like why is the media zeroing in on this incident? Or The management will decide whom they want to zero on in for this position? Are these sentences OK? Please clarify. Tks in advance!

Use the search box above. Search for who whom . There are hundreds of posts on the subject. You may be having trouble understanding because you don't have a firm grasp of a few other concepts that you must master first. Before trying to

Hello someone out there ( Perhaps Gleb? =) I really need some help with finite subordinate clauses. I have understood that they appear in three different categories : adjectival, adverbial and nominal clauses. But can someone please

Is 'might' a past tense form of 'may'? It depends on whom you ask. You certainly cannot always use might as a past tense of may but the sequence of tenses requires might in sentences like this: I knew that he might know the

I'm fairly sure I've seen negative comments about "hopefully" in AUE. Whatever, the parallel is that all four are common ... the fundamental difference between your "Ugh" reaction to Blunkett's "they" and

I simply think you're wrong. There are, of course, a ... to split infinitives, sentence-final prepositions, sentence adverb "hopefully", etc., etc. I don't know anybody who objects to singular "they" *in most

) Some are and some aren't, I think is the answer. ... genitive- case pronouns in the third person ("eius" 'his, hers'). More or less! Is this information from a linguistics textbook? No, it's from my own knowledge of

When you make statements like "I can't figure out what the difference between them is, if there is one", you appear a bit more disingenuous than I'm sure you want and the not-quite crypto-contentious side of your personality

Could someone please help a layman with these two grammar ... the seaside', but how can I explain why it's wrong? First, "might" is a modal auxiliary here and "to" never follows a modal auxiliary. Second, the grammar of

The way I understand "one of the only countries", through my native-speaker intuition, is that it's identical to "one of ... is a non-restrictive adjective, adding the information that the speaker considers the number five to be