1 Is that where you get your ideas (from)? Both OK. 2 Where/How did they come up with these ideas? Both OK. 3 He jumped into a shallow basin (plastic round pools) from 20 feet ( up ). I would include up . 4 Stocks have dropped by/dropped 1

Neither one is correct. But if you capitalize the first word of each, both will be correct. CJ

I'd better put the perishables away, lest they perish! Ooph! I just inhaled my mashed potatoes! Snort, snort! CJ

That sounds like a reasonable thing to do. What's the title? CJ

" I held her hand lest she should fall." Can we use the lest...should construction in the present and future tenses as given below ? " I am holding her hand lest she should fall." " I shall hold her hand lest she

what W hat about these clauses above? which W hich one is correct? 2 and 4 are the correct ones. The to reappears when the structure is passive. CJ

the second sentence " For you, to win will be almost impossible." means that winning is impossible as far as you are concerned. That well may be true, but it's so ambiguous that it is best reworded to remove the ambiguity. Following

I don't recommend omitting of in a couple of ... . The first slip into "lower class English" is the omission of the "v" sound in "of": couple o' ( cup pul uh). But by the time you leave out the whole word

How about the sentence " The probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5 " ? Is this a case of "content clause in apposition" ? Yes. There's nothing missing syntactically in An unbiased coin will

How do es one say # in English ? If it occurs before a number, say "Number". #5 = number five If it occurs after a number, say "Pounds". 5# of sugar = five pounds of sugar If it occurs after a letter in the context of