Dj Bueno: If someone says "I lost my train of thought," it means "I can't remember what I was thinking about."

Riglos wrote: Hi people! Could anybody tell me the meaning of the phrasal verb(?) " get (oneself) together" ? E.g. "You have to get yourself together" Thanks a lot! Mara. Hi Mara-- To "get oneself together" is to get oneself

Yunus wrote: and one more example if you use was + verb3, sentence is past. Usame bin Laden attacked New York World Trade Center in 2001 in passive: The New York World Trade Center was attacked by Usame bin Laden in 2001. i hope you

Whoops...I missed that, pieanne. You're right. Also, a comma after (PCI), and I would put "the" in front of "general public," too.

Use "perception," not "observation." "Existing perception" of businessmen simply refers to their current opinion of the matter. I don't know anything about PCI...

When speaking about literature, film, etc., you should use the present tense, as that story is forever ongoing.

Hey there, petpefriend6: I'm from the North, and you're right about "y'all" not being used up here. All of the other phrases you list, though, are said up here, too, with the exception perhaps of "there you go."

Viktor-- I am from the U.S., and I think you have made a good point when you say that our culture is difficult to describe. It's very interesting for me to read different cultures' perspectives on the U.S., because too many times those

Here in the States, we would say "***-a-doodle" for the sound a rooster makes. Hmm...it deletes the word because it thinks it is obscene. The first letter is "c"; the second is "o"; the third is "c"; and the fourth is "k."