I suppose that the best advice would be to save the subjunctive 'were' for formal writing and ESL tests. Were one to use it elsewhere, one could seem pretentious.

OK, I understand your confusion. You don't use definite articles with directions. I would say "go left, then right" or "go south." But in your example sentence, 'right' is more like a location than a direction--it's a specific place, like the

I agree with guest--most British sitcoms are funnier and better written than their American counterparts. Unfortunately, American TV always aims at the lowest common denominator. The crumudgeonly HL Mencken put it best: Nobody ever went broke

I believe that the essence of a culture remains the same despite the Levi's and the Coke (and the Siemens refrigerator, and the Michelin tires, and the Nokia phone, and the Toyota, and the Indian software, just to be fair). Japanese, Americans,

Going to the beach at Christmas, AC/DC, "Romper Stomper", people who are fun to meet elsewhere in the world. Now I think of bad puns, too. Nestor

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I think 'during' is a better choice.

Your sentence means something, so don't worry about that. You might want to use 'about' instead of 'into'. I'd also think about changing 'a crucial insight'--insight isn't a countable thing in this case, so I wouldn't use 'a'. "Get crucial insight