Understand literally: The circle becomes a square. The sentence here may act like a figurative. There can be a lot of meanings depending on the context: - some unbelivable things occurs in front of me - one did something which was thought to

From "You be the judge", it indeed tells you to make your own judgment. So if I say "you be the moher", I might indeed wish to say something like "you should act like a typical mother to take care and loveyour children. That means it is not

Thanks a lot. How about my questions about the poetic licence issue?

"sometimes" is any frequency except "never". I beg to differ. It needs minor modifications. At least it will not be down to the frequency level like "rarely"/hardly/seldom". "usually" --- no ranking In my opinion, it means highly

Thanks so much for your posts. I understood thoroughly. Also you pinpointed my problems relating to "rather usually" / "very usually". I supposed it is ok since, unlike always, different "usually" may have different minor frequency difference.

No difference indeed. Use either one for "free" ^^

'Top' of the road 'Bottom' of the road Head of the road (by Mister Micawber) To me, I feel they are not appropriate. The meaning is slightly changed. A road can starts at the bottom. We will still call it at the beginning/start of the

1.some of the pie is missing. (Compare: some of the pies are missing) Here "some" refer to "some pies", plural noun uses so-called plural verb 2.none of the three is interested. "none" here refers to not any one (of the three). "Not any one"

1.some of the pie is missing. (Compare: some of the pies are missing) Here "some" refer to "some pies", plural noun uses plural verb(?) 2.none of the three is interested. 3.The crew is/are writing reports of the wreck. 4.It could not be I