i would say "i am/was thinking of breaking the news to him when he comes home". if you put the first part in the definite past tense, it implies that you have decided NOT to break the news to him when he comes home. i thought about it, but

the simpson family (bart simpson, not bart simpsons, is his name) happy holidays from a) the simpson family OR 2) the simpsons as for the first sentence, "me and my wife's tree"

what is a mixed conditional??

rather does sound "british" to americans, when meaning "quite/fairly" ... we tend to use "pretty" as an adverb: she is pretty tall however, rather can also mean "instead (of)" (usually used with "than") i would rather eat beef than chicken.

yes... for, by, or no preposition at all would give virtually the same sentence. we will work it out for ourselves we will work it out by ourselves we will work it out ourselves

the audience IS (collective) coldplay IS (collective) the beatles ARE (because the word beatles is plural??) the who IS diana ross and the supremes ARE

not a hard and fast rule, but ... if there is an administrative region/city/etc. whose official name includes a direction, you should use it with the place name and capitalize it as well (North America, New South Wales, etc.). if you are speaking

misspelling aside, more context is needed to know if the sentence is "right". grammatically, yes, it could work, but more info is needed... there is, however, a tremendous difference between: EF had my papers forwarded to a client... and

i always hated these, but i would say fabricate is to excuse is most like tell is to story. the first (of each pair) is an oral representation of a possibly true/possible fictional second part

draw a veil over ... (in order to cover) ... lengthening scars, etc.