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,

Do/does/did is not used in questions 1. with forms of to be : Is he happy? Were they swimming? 2. with perfect and past perfect auxiliaries : Have you seen him? Had it already begun? 3. sometimes with have/has/had when the verb is in the

America the nation is another matter. If I had to sum up the stereotype it would be: Power Without Nobility.\ ... nature of America as seen by outsiders. Pretending to be so helpful to others, but meantime it's all about self-interest. What a

"Ovum" What do people in your country say about Americans behind our backs, and how have the actual Americans you've interacted with (including the ones here on MWSm) fit or disproved the stereotype? The few Americans I've met

Here goes the information from a dictionary. A continuing debate in English usage is the question of when to use who and when to use whom. According to formal grammar, who forms the subjective case and so should be used in subject position in a

Usually "such as" introduces an example or list of examples. So, you might say "men such as those appointed to order or marshal the field". This refers to a group of men of whom marshals and organisers are typical or

A question. Does the writer want to say "and also except the people whose jobs are like and related to ordering and marshaling the field by using such as "? If not what is the meaning of such as here? It's pretty

I agree with the above response, as well as others. WHILE is used for referencing a "moment" (He was patient WHILE he waited), kind of like a pivot, but nowadays is often used to also reference "time to a moment" (You should

There is a difference in what is correct English and what you will hear sometimes. Who is a subject pronoun while Whom is an object pronoun. In your example, "neither Liseli nor I know whom it was" because It is the subject and Whom is

Okay. I believe the correct answer would be "whom" Mix the sentance up a bit to work it into using he/she or him/her (and still making sense) Just take the most important part, or subject of the sentance. EX: I don't know if it was