Thanks, Bender. First of all, let me post the following grammar explanaiton about 'determiner': "Determiners GRAMMAR A determiner is a word used in front of a noun to indicate whether you are referring to a specific

Hey guys, Here's a list of commonly mispronounced words in English. Very interesting and useful, in my opinion. Enjoy! Feel free to post any other ones that you've come across. A No: acrossed | Yes: across It is easy to confuse "across" with

I'm Australian, and it's always 'tanned' here. But I would contend that is what it's intended to be in American English, too. I always used to read/hear 'tanned' in American media and books, and it's only in recent

If you are going to use the adjective "fellow" then it is only when you are in the same category as them. The President of the United States say "My fellow Americans." Someone from France or China cannot say that. A student

There's no problem with verb+adjective (as in "The door was painted black") so possibly the way to parse this is to consider "shut" as an adjective. (In fact, it's just occurred to me that you could also say "The

. The differences I have been talking about are vague at best. As you may judge from my comments and those of Alphecca Stars and California Jim, the form with the noun in the case of talent/gift are the norm, while the form with the

. The differences I have been talking about are vague at best. As you may judge from my comments and those of Alphecca Stars and California Jim, the form with the noun in the case of talent/gift are the norm, while the form with the adjective is

Eunjinny,your sentences don't make any sense. Taboo is a borrowed word, mostly used as an adjective. These are OK: I was talking about taboo words. I was talking about a taboo subject. In my country, asking a lady her age is a social taboo.

Some time ago, I had a similar discussion on the verbs being “open” and "closed" with several forumers which went off line, escalating to private messages in the form of nasty gram, basically suggesting that my view was lacking

There's been some discussion on whether Obama writes his own speeches or has a speechwriter. Based on a letter Ron ... from the letter into a Fog Index calculator. It is almost off-the-scale foggy. I conclude that he has a speechwriter. From