In American usage, pair is singular. "A pair of knickers is lost." British usage is different, I believe.

Diction: The author's choice of words. Alexie is a Native American, and he uses Native American and Indian reservation slang throughout his work. What does this say about his work? Tone: Alexie's tone is the attitude he expresses towards his

Of the first group, a is correct. I believe that a is correct in the second group, too. I think that when you put 'tall' at the end of the sentence, you use the regular plural. If you didn't say 'tall', you'd say "I'm six foot two." I don't see

Sometimes I'm not so sure I'll ever sometime love you.

Dawg: It's a pronunciation spelling of the word dog. If someone's "my dawg," he or she is my friend. If someone's a "dawg," he or she is promiscuous. I can also "dawg" something--If I'm hungry, I'll dawg my food, meaning that I'll eat a lot of it

Bratannia, those phrases probably arise from Madison Avenue English or Legalese, and as a result, they contain more words than necessary. The writer could have perfected the squirrel sentence by putting it in the passive voice. The sentence would

I'll try to give a partial answer. A relative clause is a portion of a sentence that adds information about a previous noun in the sentence. The previous noun is called the antecedent. Relative clauses are marked by relative pronouns: that,

We're working with three things here: "some time," "sometime," and "sometimes." some time: Use this when you want to express an indefinite period of time. It doesn't matter how long or how short of a period you mean. It's used with the past

Maybe we only use it in the US. American English preserves many archaic features of the language.

Those expressions are tough. Hmmm. Where I live (southern US), we wouldn't put the "had" in example one--I'd say "I used to think that...." But, to be on the safe side, you might want to avoid example one in writing. "I once thought that..." is