Hello, Three hours and forty-three minutes into his shift on his first day as a sworn officer, he'd gotten a call to a convenience store. Robbery in progress. It was obvious when he'd pulled the squad car to an abrupt stop in the

Hello, ... so-called angel investors who could provide financing and coaching of young companies. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/technology/start-ups/08google.html The preposition of bothers me for a while. Does the relative clause mean

Hi, Done with the dinner, Tom walked to the counter and paid the bill. Regarding this sentence, what is the corresponding vocabulary for the cashier's action? Charged the bill? I'd like to know the idiomatic expressions for the

Dear All: I need your comments. Someone (A) asked on another website for English learners about the grammar of this sentence, " He kept saying that he loved me ." I suggested the that-clause (that he loved me) is a noun/nominal clause,

Dear All: I have some questions about some verbs and nouns in the lyrics to "My Best Friend's Girl" of The Cars. http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/mybestfriendsgirl/mybestfriendsgirl.htm (A video is embedded on this page.) --- When

As Philip said, in the U.S., you can say either on the weekends , or on weekends, with little difference in meaning. Hi, May I ask what is the difference between "on weekends" and "on the weekends"? I consulted some

Hi, Too many books in this genre have little to say that hasn't already been said a thousand times, and they're just too hyper-focused on mistakes, a focus which has a way of inculcating a sort of paranoia amongst writers who follow

Thanks, Barbara, but can you expound more on the problem with the original sentence? I find it hard to justify for myself.

An argument accordingly rose up, that is, where we should start our career, a big city or small town. How does this sentence read to the ears of native English speakers? It is in a textbook published in Mandland China. I have no information

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