There is an English idiom "to have a frog in one's throat" which means "To feel the need to cough; to have a tickle in one's throat; to have a scratchy or uneven voice." "put his put down" doesn't

I don't know what "Q5" and Q7" mean, but ignoring that: 1 There are more hands stronger than weaker than Q5. /stronger than Q5 than weaker than Q5. 2 There are as many hands stronger than Q7 as there are weaker than

Could you also say The sentece talks about the fictional time in relation to screen time. "The sentence talks about the fictional time in relation to screen time." Yes, with the amendments noted that seems OK to me.

I was asking Mr. Tom if his concern over the naturalness of the line was over the idea of a "false rumor." Sorry, I misunderstood what you said.

Did you worry that it was redundant to say "false rumor"? A rumor can be true or false. How do you mean, GG? If a rumour can be true or false then how is it redundant to say it's false?

How would you say number 4 then? Possibly you could say: "The sentence above is talking about the difference between fictional time (the time elapsed in the characters' fictional lives) and screen time (the time taken to

In this sentence there isn't a whole lot of difference to me. "clemency" is usually used in relation to punishment of offenders by the judicial system. "leniency" is often used in the same way, but it can also be used

are there any other words for which this particular word order ( X + adjective + a/an + noun ) applies? Another word that fits this structure is "this" (or "that"): "This talented a writer should not be

I mean why "of + those things", why not only "those things" or only "which" Sorry, I misunderstood. You can't "rob someone something". "It robbed him his childhood." --

You can not have robbed him of those things he never had, nor of those things he had any good reason to believe he ever would have. Why not this? Well, you'd have to ask the author that. "what" is more concise, I guess.