I didn't see your opinion at that link. What is it? I don't have an opinion, Anon. MrP

You're welcome, '981 – I'm glad it helped! My experience of English grammar books is quite limited; I wouldn't know which to recommend. Mister Micawber would have a much better idea – with luck he'll come across this thread and suggest

If you were to hear it in the UK, it would most probably be in conscious parody of old films, US tv shows, etc., and probably in a context of sarcasm ("Well, that's just swell", etc.). (It would be quite a weak form of humour.) MrP

"To be imbued with" means "to be saturated with"; thus it would be difficult for you to be imbued with another person's knowledge. But you might be imbued with his thoughts or opinions, e.g. 1. I am thoroughly imbued with his theories about

I'm afraid your implicit argument is ball, Anon. MrP

Not at all. Where? Please be precise. If your author intended to say that adverbial "off" is becoming prepositional, but that prepositional "off" already exists: a) he would have nowhere to park the non-prepositional adverbial uses

Hello Anon, In ordinary standard English, the correct form is "has taken". It is the 3rd person singular of the present perfect of "take". Best wishes, MrP

The translation is certainly more grammatical than the original. MrP

Where did he say that? I think he said that the adverb is becoming a preposition. I take that to mean he predicts the death of the adverb "off". His article as a whole presents prepositional "off" as a new development. MrP

It's fine. Cf. http://www.englishpage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13016 for a more detailed discussion. MrP