An old rythme just sprang into mind: Don't say ain't or your mom will faint and your dad will fall into a bucket of paint

Hi MrPernickety Don't think of it as positive or negative. After all, many mistakes is bad, but many hundred dollar bills is good! Hi, Barbara As a matter of fact, it was Mr

hey, The difference between a few and few is that a few is seen like something positive and few as something negative. So, if he is careful he makes only a few mistakes. So, "a few mistakes" is better than "few mistakes"

Hi, everybody ! I saw a sentence along the lines of "her parents passed on, she became an orphan and had to go it alone " It is my understanding that "go it along" means "live your life on your own, with no help from

I don't know about you, guys, but I myself draw a line between sounding uneducated and sounding foreign. For example, saying "You ain't lisnin' to 'im" is without a shade of a doubt uneducated, but saying "You

It means "to attack someone" Interestingly enough, if you change it to "why are you turning me on like this" this would mean "why are you arousing me sexually like this" You can check all these meanings in

Hi, everybody! I know that "forge" might mean "to move at a steady pace" One of these days I saw it used in this fashion: He forged ahead of them From the context I could gather that he was bulky and was having

Hi, I've heard of those two expressions and I can't quite put my finger on the difference, could you help me distinguish them, please? My best quess is that: I have reason to shirk school (there's no definite reason, I

Hi, There's no rule of thumb that will allow you to know beforehand whether a noun is countable or otherwise. To make matters worse, there are a great many nouns in English that can be countable with one meaning and uncountable with another,