"Mr. Miliband said that alongside work to forge an international framework, every country needed to take domestic action." Isn't there missing somehting in the sentence? Or does 'alongside' have some other meaning? I feel something like 'in

I get the idea but find the way keep is used here rather confusing. Shouldn't there be a passive voice or a subject used? "... on Saturday afternoons one could buy, for a few pence, bags of unsold cakes that wouldn't keep in the shops until

Alright, but how about when you say -- and I'm making this up-- that winning that championship (something that started and finished, naturally) has been the best highlight. Aren't we dealing here with the same kind of situation?

Yes, that was what I was looking for. On the right side/margin of the page . Is this ok? Go to the top / low part. What about this one?

Hi CalifJim. Sorry, I still don't quite get it. there's no indication that April is or isn't over yet. That 'last week' may very well be one of the three weeks of April, or the fourth, in which case simple past is the only option. In the former

So, what would the theoretical explanation be? Could it be that as long as long as you have aspecific place reference (in the park, in this case) you needn't 'there'? And that if you want to use just the verb 'to be', first you have to write

I guess I was wrong, then. The character (male, by the way) had two sisters, so they were three in total. So 'eldest' was used correctly.

Ok. The thing is I was reading a short story today where one of the characters explained that his ring was a present from "my eldest sister. Consequently his other sister had been giving hell about it." Shouldn't have it been older/elder?

Like when telling people to look at a certain area or side of a page, text, painting, etc.

...And the weather. We have had ( have ) a lot of rain over the country since the beginning of the week and unfortunately this will continue until the weekend. For your information, last week _________ (be) the wettest April week for 100 years.