Thank you both. 1. usually packed for a picnic was replaced by used to prepare for picnics. it looks like the replacement is better, but is there anything wrong with the original? is picnics better than a picnic? 2. on the festival is

cool, huh?

On August 15 of Chinese lunar calendar Chinese celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (The Moon Festival). This year it fell on September 28, which just passed. "Oh! How I miss the mooncakes and pomeloes my parents usually packed for a picnic on the

Thanks. different kinds of fruits would be wrong. Is flower also a non-count noun? An "older woman" gave my son flowers when he was in 5th grade. Do I say: A 6th grader gave my son flowers, or A 6th grader gave my son flower. If it is

thank you, you started this. please note you can search for affixes, just enter sub- or -fy. Try it. you can also use wild characters like ? and * in www.onelook.com If you want to find out those acronyms, go to onelook and type, for example,

what has happened to the "Prize Winning Post" forum? I thought it was a good idea.

1. Is fruit as non-count noun? 2. We were trying to use the idiom "buying a pig in a poke," so I think a correct way would be: I bought some fruit, but it had all gone bad. (I bought the bad fruit because I had not looked in the first place.)

Thank you. It helped a lot.

Got it. Question: Underneath a moon or under a moon? Same thing? does bright imply bright white? Thanks.

Sincerely is a common one. Do people still use Cordially?