It depends if you think of these minutes as a block of time, or as individual things that go one by one. When you are doing someting unpleasant and you feel each minute passing, then "one minute more" or "one minute too many"

Definitely not idiomatic! If I think of a way to explain it, I'll come back. I can't explain it, but "one minute too many" seems somewhat more natural in the following context: "I only had to wait one minute in that pigsty

Hi, The following three sentences all seem fine to me: - "If you leave the cookies in the oven one minute too long, they will be overcooked." - "If you leave the cookies in the oven one minute more than needed, they will be

Thanks, but those are all general rules, some of which have no relevance to my question. What about my examples? If you have one action expressed in past progressive tense, and another action that is going on simultaneously with the first, then it

Hi, I'm having trouble deciding whether to use the past simple or past progressive in the following two examples: 1. "At the cemetary, I saw a gravedigger shoveling earth into a ditch. Some of the townsfolk gathered there suggested he was

Sorry for the late response. I've been thinking about what you said and I'm still not entirely convinced that the form "something as as " is incorrect. It is certainly not uncommon. I found the following sentence in a review by

Thanks, Avangi. Do you think the phrase "worst misdeeds" is redundant? Personally, I think it's fine in this context, but I could be wrong. Would it better if I said "worst deeds" instead? (It sort of makes the deeds in

Raen, I couldn't agree more with you. I sure hope more people join this thread. I think I'm more confused now than I was when I started this thread...

Hi, I'm not sure which word fits this sentence better - "misdeed" or "misdemeanor"? "The principal sat quietly behind his desk, waiting for the child to confess his worst misdeeds / misdemeanors ." Do you have

Hello Marvin, Do you recognize that there is a problem, that the singular/plural clash is disconcerting? For me your original sentence cuts it less than I feel rather cheap buying ephemeral things like flowers. I probably didn't suggest