Which would you recommend using here? One fewer player than last season. One less player than last season. Hi Mr. "Anonymous" The second one sounds idiomatic, and I can easily imagine people using it in everyday English. However,

Hi AlpheccaStars, Sorry for keeping you. I notice that in your reply you didn't correct (at / in) the back of the office, do both correct depsite AME and British usage? Would you correct the following sentences in which I have

You can read a little bit about subordinate clauses here: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm And you can read a bit about word order for "although" and "though" in the usage note here:

What book is telling you that, Taka? Just take a look at the corpora. You'll find loads of usage examples for "not+being+adjective". It seems to me there will often be differences in meaning or focus depending on where you put the

I wonder why people use "come and go" rather than "go and come". Is this rather a question of common usage or would you say that "come and go" behaves like an idiom? It's merely a matter of custom, i.e., common

By the way when can we use let ? If that was actually a serious question, then I would ask you to please be more specific. The word "let" has quite a few definitions and usages, and I feel sure you already know some of them. Perhaps you

Hi, Different, and hence conflictual, they are, especially in the present case, as they have irreconcilable principles. I have separated conflictual and different with commas to precise that I only refer to the former when I mention

I've seen a handful of misquotations on MWSM this week. I guess standards are slipping to their summer level. Alan Brooks A with an Underwood Now is the winner of our disco tent. Interesting that you would say this Alan. "Now is the

Hi everyone, Could/should I use "Dear Madam/Sir" instead of "Dear Sir/Madam" ? I am writing an email to a recruitment agency. I know the e-mail will probably be opened and read by a female employee (she was pointed out to me by

John O'Flaherty wrote on 25 Jul 2004: I just thought I'd provide an example of each usage ... who "needs" as little as one small drink every day.' I agree. To compress the example, He's a drinker, whether or not he's