the U.S. equivalentes to European notes do re mi fa sol la si.... Grammar Geek has already answered this. U.S. CDEFGAB = European do re mi fa sol la si (That last one is ti in English, but you guys have si there.) CJ

if you count by two's, you miss it by one. if you count by five's, you miss it by the same amount. It is greater than 20. What is the smallest number it could be? Pretty good, but you still missed a couple of capital letters. And the

Is it necessary to invert the second part of such sentences ? No. In fact, inversion is less common. CJ

I hear these expressions quite often but they are not clear to me. What is the difference between 'up the street ' and 'down the street'? when to use them? 1. Fregley is a weird kid who lives up the street . When the street is

Do native speakers strictly distinguish 1. from 2.? No. Not at all. For example, you might be saying that someone is left-handed by saying "He tosses a ball with his left hand". There's nothing about the determiner the (as opposed to

What do you think 'regular mail' means here? I think it means the same way that you would mail an ordinary letter using the postal system of your nation. In the U.S. it would exclude sending through a parcel delivery company like FedEx or

My question is, why the answer "approach" is incorrect? It's incorrect because an approach is a way of going about solving a problem or performing a task. So the word approach is used completely differently from means . approach has

1st, grammatical error: "approach" needs the preposition "to" 2nd, syntax error Generally speaking, a grammatical error is a syntax error, so there's something wrong with the way you are thinking this through. I think you

pra c tice, not pra s tice. Don't start a sentence with a number. Spell it out. Three years ago, when ... The context set up by this sentence is one of a habit in the past. Either form of the verb can communicate that, so both are fine.

Is it incorrect to make possessives of animals? No. This is the dog's dish. CJ