By Word order

Hi N2GJust a little added comment:The fixed idiom has the word order I gave you.If you found your sentence written somewhere with the word order reversed (i.e. "sound and safe"), then the author was probably just playing with the idiom -- possibly because banks have safes (vaults) where...

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own...

Thank you, optilang and Marius.So, it appears it's only the word order that you didn't like... I'll also substitute "noticed" for "noted".

The way is written is correct. You can also use the inverted word order to give more emphasis to the sentence. e.g. Not only have I sent a number of e-mails but also (I have) left a few voice messeges.

Hi Yankee, Just doin' my thing here. Can you think of a sentence where "do not I" would work? I was thinking it sounded sort of Elizabethan, like maybe The Merchant of Venice. I couldn't find it, but came across lots of third person examples, like "Does not a doubling...

Hi YLNo, 'do not I' doesn't work uncontracted in that sentence. However, if a contraction is used, that is technically what the word order is.

Your guess is correct, Avangi. The term "relative superlative" is rarely used even in Finland, but it does exist here. I suppose European grammarians think it's enough to distinguish the two superlatives if one of them has a modifier (absolute).I think the development of the...

Hi, ...no more formal a place is there.. I wonder why "is there" instead of "there is"? It's just a fancier and less common word order.Would it be incorrect to write "there is"? No. You'd usually write . . there is no more formal a place . . or . . there is...

I'd change the word order: ...I woke up in tears almost every morning. This way it sounds more natural to me.

I'd just say,I don't remember the last time I went to the movies.The when was just confuses the issue. But if the question is really about word order in an indirect question, then here's a shorter example.Wrong: I don't remember when was it.Right: I don't remember when it...