Thanks for the replies. "Proof"/"prove" is a foolish typo indeed. As for the "beasts of prey"/"predatory beasts" — I just don't understand what you don't like about "beasts of prey"...

Hello all, Do you think that the Past Pefect is unnatural in this context (a description of a computer game, in the present tense): « Things do change with time. A night visit to a location that had looked safe and cosy during the day may proof

May I ask, is the definite article before "evening" really needed? Anton

If you look the words up in a dictionary you'll find that "follow-up" is a noun. Anton

Yes, Vincent, although I don't understand why you have chosen to use the definite article before "tourists". Are they some specific tourists mentioned in the text before? Also, regarding the second sentence. If it's telling what

(a) and (c) are OK, but (b) sounds strange. Did you mean to say: «Most of the tourists that we met were from Japan»? Anton

You're breaking new ground here, Anton.  The rules of grammar have no relevance. It's not that simple. It's the girl who is speaking, so let's consider the situation from her viewpoint. She _is_ sure that that is just a computer

Here's a riddle that I hope will cheer you. Given are the first six members of a sequence: 1: 1 2: 1 1 3: 2 1 4: 1 2 1 1 5: 1 1 1 2 2 1 6: 3 1 2 2 1 1 7: ??? Can you deduce it's seventh member? Anton

Forgive me if you already know all this.   Yes, I know it, but it didn't come to my mind and had lain somewhere in the depths, so thanks for reassuring me. Anton

If I simply meant that the tourists are Japanese and live in Japan then I would tend to say "tourists who came from Japan" . To me it looks as though you are sort of treating the verb "to come (from)" as non-perfective in this