JTT: The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English points out that both are available depending on how its viewed by the speaker.

The first and the third ones are commonly used, Warrener. ================== M-W online: Main Entry: good Function: adverb 1 : WELL 2 -- used as an intensive usage Adverbial good has been under attack from the schoolroom since

1) I CAME down with THE flu as soon as I had recovered from bronchitis. No sooner had I recovered from bronchitis than I CAME down with THE flu. 'a case of the flu' is ok 2) She said she thought I was a liar. She accused… me a) of being

Mr Pedantic wrote: Just to clarify: 3d. If you're able to do this exercise, you would be very clever. If someone said this to me, I would find it very strange. 'You must be very clever' would be the natural continuation; 'you are very

These three sites will fill you in much better than I could, Abbie. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2282.html http://web-jpn.org/kidsweb/calendar/april/goldenweek.html http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0005.html

Hi Abbie. Been a bit busy. As to the special week, yup, it's Golden Week. Yesterday, I saw the most incredible maze created out of cardboard boxes, and it all fit in the size of one classroom. Amazing!

As Albert Einstein said, "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." In modern English, 'who' is both a subject and an object form. Basically, Kontum, you can use 'who' for 'whom' in most all situations. The one major exception

The moral high ground; such a slippery slope, eh, Abbie? :D

Well then, Paco, let's just leave it up to the CGEL, The Grammar Book, and numerous other language professionals, unless you'd like to find some sources that show they are mistaken.

Paco: Sounds your books are telling merely that some native speakers don't do always the tense backshift in direct-to-indirect speech conversion. But I don't take it as that those books are saying ESL students always have to follow that kind of