Thank you very much for your replies.

"'I'll look to like, if looking liking move: But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.'" -William Shakespeare (who else?) For some time now this sentence has bothered me; mainly this part: "if

Adverb comparison comes in two flavours; the degrees of comparison by adverb: He plays the piano most beautifully (Superlative form: an adverb (most) used to modify another adverb (beautifully) and by suffix: She swims fastest.

Thank you, Jim.

In the sentence "We used thirty-six megawatts of electricity and a liquid helium chilled supercapacitor to teleport a sewing needle through twenty feet of lead," can the prepositional phrase "of electricity" be omitted if a megawatt is understood

A, an and the can be used to specify that a noun refers to the whole class to which individual countable nouns belong. We call the usage of articles in such manner generic. What a traveller needs to know about the Euro. (any traveller, not

Jim is a person whom I admire vey much.

To start with, webb, insistent is one word.

Ah, I was using Merriam-Webster. I'll switch over to American.

Who as an interrogative pronoun has three cases: who, whom and whose. They exclusively refer to people: Hey, who ate my poptart? I know not for whom this letter was sent. Whose hundred-dollar-bill is this? If the interrogative pronoun