How would you say this? A teacher is sending a test to another teacher for the latter to use any parts of the test she likes. Would you say "at your convenience" or "to your convenience"? "Here goes the test. Feel free to use it to your

Thanks Clive! Now, the sentence I find confusing is the last one. How would you parse it? "The CPU can fetch data from memory along the data bus" 1. Is it that "The CPU can fetch data from memory which is along the data bus "? 2. Or

Hi MM! You wrote: "most hits are reservation on Friday / the internet / the phone /etc." Do you mean that the use of "ON" here is required by the following noun (i.e. Friday / the internet / the phone) rather than by the previous noun

Hi everyone! Could you tell me why "onto" and not "Into" or "In" is used in the following context? "The address number is put onto the address bus." "The CPU puts the adress onto the address bus." Would the other two possibilities be just as fine?

Hi everyone! Could you please explain the difference between "along" and across" in the following context? I'd like to explain the difference to my students: "Data is transferred along the data bus." "Heads move across the disk." "The signal moves

Hi people! Are these two words used interchangeably (in an IT context)? If not, could you explain the different uses for each? Thanks a lot! Mara.

Hi everybody and thanks for your comments! The thing with the apparently chaotic nature of English is that it makes correcting and preparing classes a really hard task (at least for me)! The problem I'm usually faced with is: how am I supposed

Thanks a million to all of you!! You guys are great! Now, what do you think about sentence 2? Should it be Microsoft's logo or Microsoft logo? And if somebody could answer my question " How would you expain compound nouns as different from

Hi people! This sentence was taken from one of David Crystal's (well-known linguist) books on the English Language: "The design 's asymmetries well represent the irregularities and erratic research paths which are so much a part of English

Hi people! I'm quite confused about the form the first element in a compound noun should take. At first, I also confused possession with this issue, though now it seems a whole lot clearer! I'd appreciate it if you could have a look at these