The patients' bodies start to 'make' cancer. That's actually a rather accurate statement because from a medical standpoint it's really the patients' bodies that make cancer. So: "...almost half a million women each year develop cervical

I think both "a ten-storeyed building" and "a ten-storey building" are valid. "ten-storeyed building" refers to, uh, "quality" meaning "a building that has 10 stories" in the same way that "three-legged stool" means "a stool that has three

I guess the logic or sense of why "more" and "like" go together here can also be made clearer if we remember that the word "like" is being used to mean "similar to" Therefore, we could restate the sentence this way: The resulting X-ray looks

Hi Shama, I think you answered correctly everything in the first part except #5 5). DENOUEMENT a) denunciation b) dormancy c) termination d) explanation I would choose "termination" as closest in meaning to "denouement" As for the

My turn with these sentences. 1.Passing through ten different cities, Lahore is the most active. Lahore is the most active of the ten different cities we passed through. 2.He was laid up for six weeks with two broken ribs. He broke two

Hi Taka, The "long chain of circumstances" that "leads to a number of embarrassing questions being asked" is not mentioned or specified in the paragraph you quoted. Maybe, since I assume that paragraph is part of a longer work, the exact

Hi Nona, You're right about what is meant in the second sentence, where a comma was used. However, I'd like to expand the explanation for other non-native English speakers like myself. Let's put a context to the second sentence. The second

Hi Candy, Here are my short answers to your questions. Don't bother with my earlier, longer response, which might be confusing. Maybe you or other posters can refer to them, as further, more circuitous explanations of the short answers.

I understand your difficulty. English isn't my native or first language, either. And to think Chinese is such a pictographic language! Anyway, did you quote the entire sentence here? It just seems...broken off from something larger. If

Elduende_ph wrote: Finally, I don't think using "other times" in your original sentence is justified in following "Oftentimes". I think it's a matter of degree and nuance. You say "Oftentimes" to mean what happens "usually" or "most of the