If you wanted to perpetuate the image of a journey you could even use via . My journey took me from X to Z via Y .

We don't say 'a plenty of flowers' ; it should be 'plenty of flowers' . That's not quite what an array of flowers means. It means a selection of flowers suitable perhaps for a display of some sort; it suggests that they

It means that as a left-handed person writes, the passage of his hand over the fresh ink causes it to smudge. This is why many left- handed people write hooking their hand right round so that their hand is to the right of what they are writing.

I would say there was a conjunctive preposition implied, probably with . Every chance means with every chance .

I agree with Avangi about changing your to the , and of the three verbs I'd choose showed . Made is wrong, and displayed sounds forced and less spontaneous.

The use of reach here isn't idiomatic, Daro. In this sort of sentence, I think reach is usually transitive - the letter must reach me in time, or on time . For me in time means early enough to achieve its purpose , and on time means at the

Have you looked them up in the dictionary, Sour Lemon? It's always easier to help people who show exactly what they find puzzling.

I don't see how it can be dead on when it says that John Huss lived in the 17th century and you say that the Council of Constance found him guilty of heresy in 1414. I was interested in the suggestion that the expression might come from Huss.

His knowledge of X and Y aids him - the knowledge is singular even if the subjects about which he is knowledgeable are plural. In your second example you are saying effectively His X and his Y aid him - his X and his Y amount to two things, so you

In British English we often say of someone: there's nothing wrong with him which a good strangling wouldn't put right.