odd sentence... is "the man" and "the manager" the same person? if no: we could meet the man who approves all loans if the manager WERE here. if yes: if the manager were here, we could meet him. it is he who approves all loans.

i would say "incountable", never to be used in the plural. that being said however, in a technical sense, one may be speaking of different types of road surfaces, and therefore one might say something like: "asphalt and cement both give a

mike is correct, but mercy goes beyond "refrain"... mercy is compassion or understanding. sometimes it is a call for others to understand our situation and actions, sometimes it is a call to god to give us the power to understand something beyond

antonio... help me out here. admitedly, i am unfamiliar with the terms stative and relational, but more importantly, i don,t quite understand your question. you were always told "stative verbs cannot appear in a progressive tense", and your

"commercial purposes" means that you hope to gain (usually a monetary profit) from its use/distribution. with regard to software (where one most often sees this type of warning/message, it simply means you cannot make/sell copies of the the

sounds good to me... these words are often used to describe native flora/fauna/food/political titles or other things that simply do not exist in english-speaking society. use foreign words sparingly, it can come off as affected.

the ending "-nik" is stolen (probably improperly) from russian. nogoodnik, beatnik, and probably a few others are examples of this.

a woman of substance... notable, maybe even worthy of respect (maybe she is rich, powerful, or even strong in character)

i would only use palazzo (careful with the spelling!) if i were writing fiction which took place in italy. local foreign words often appear this way in english literature. (in the fashion world, there exist "palazzo pants", which, if i am not

good clarification raul! on further reflection, i think that sentences such as "where is he at?" come from a general tendancy to make contractions - and would always be pronounced "where's he at?" (never as four distinct words, the "is" being