Yes, "the professor said that mathematics wasn't easy" is the grammatically correct form and it is what should be said if you want to speak and write correctly. What I meant above is that to me personally this structure doesn't sound logical,

Regarding future tense structures, 'will' implies a wish, a willingness to do something. "I will fight" means that I really want to fight and that's what I am going to do. "I'm going to fight" denotes a future event but does not imply the

Yes, 'nought' is still widely used in the UK to denote zero.

I also feel many times that reported speech rules should simply not be there, for the same reason as mentioned above, namely, that if something is constant in nature, I feel it's awkward to refer to it in the past. The professor told us:

'Territory outside Italy', or 'conquered territory' according to Collins.

The word 'good' is grammatically an adjective ('he is a good man') or a noun ('for the good of the country'), not an adverb. Hence, although many people use it in ways like 'I can dance good', that usage is incorrect.

'The Spy has been being watched' - it doesn't sound very natural to me, as I've never heard anyone use it like this. What my English teacher of 10 years ago would probably suggest in this case would be to rephrase it thus: 'The Spy has been

This has been debated before, I don't remember if it was in this forum or elsewhere, so I will reply once again. If you consider any protein's name in this - I'm sorry for the word - ridiculously expanded form to be an actual word, then there

Of the two sentences, the first one ('I very much hope to improve my English') sounds more natural to me, but they both mean the same thing to me, that is that you have a great hope to improve your English. 'I hope to improve my English very

Collins English Dictionary enlightens us thus: foreshadow vb. (tr.) to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage. In other words, foreshadowing is showing in a predictive way some future event. Example: 'The president's political