That's why people say English is confusing. You just have to memorize. India, the U.S., France, the Virgin Islands, Argentina, The Philippines ... are just a few to mess you up.

Yes, bvpraveen. When you refer to America as a country, you must use "the U.S." (the United States - nowadays many would omit the dots though.) U.S. (without "the") can be used as adjective. Ex: U.S. import, U.S. currency, U.S. dollars.

"Association" belongs to the category of collective nouns. Collective nouns have a dual status: both plural and singular depending on situation. If every single member of the group behaves or acts the same thing or the same way or as ONE SINGLE

b) She said , I would like to be like Nancy Reagan (whenever she was accompanying Ronald Reagan giving a speech ) she HAD IT DOWN, she looked at him with total adoration. The speaker of this sentence admired Nancy Reagan's gesture in public of

In your sentence, usages of "emigrate" and "immigrate" are correct. However, most writers would rearrange the sentence as I want to emigrate from India to the US.

The negative form "Didn't skip a beat" is a musical metaphor. When a music piece is performed without skipping any beat, it is continuous and fluid. The phrase "didn't skip a beat" means "didn't stop", "relentless", "without pausing",

Does the 1st person needs to be placed as last position? Yes it does. For politeness/humility/modesty purpose children are taught to write and say "you and I", "you and me", "he and I" etc. since grade school. Over time this sequence becomes

OK guys. I found this on a Catholic FAQs page online. "Canonization, the process the Church uses to name a saint, has only been used since the tenth century. For hundreds of years, starting with the first martyrs of the early Church, saints

Thank you MrP. Makes a lot of sense.

"The accident killed 20 persons" is perfectly OK. So is "the fire which killed 2 toddlers in Houston may be the work of an arsonist", and so on.