Hello CJ I don't like to argue against a great guru like you, but I agree with Riglos about this issue. I understand "walking stick" is "stick for the purpose of walking" or "stick to be used in walking". So I take this "walking" as a gerund and I

Hello Clive I guess Ben wanted to mean "sloppy projects" rather than "designing waste dumps" by "dump design". How about "No amount of taxpayers' money should be spent on sloppy projects"? paco

I think "the end of the year" commonly means "New Year's Eve". So I find it odd that pupils say good bye to one another on New Year's Eve. I might say like "Yesterday was the last day of the school year, and the pupils said good bye to one

MyShirley wrote: Yesterday, I bought a lot of food in the supermarket for this whole week. Is this sentence correct? "I bought a lot of food for this whole week" means "I bought a lot of food every day this week". So I think the sentence

Hello StarS The three things you asked about are different each other from the standpoint of grammar. (1)"The person (who is) seated in front of me keeps turning back." This kind of relative-clause contraction is called "WHIZ deletion" in a

Davidrock65 wrote: A. How many months left for you to retire from the army? B. How many months for your lease to expire? Are those two sentences correct? They are wrong, because they have no finite verb and make no sense. By the way, you can

Wwwdotcom wrote: I think the teacher was looking at it like a time based thing. You think of new stuff, like a baby's name, whereas if we already met and you forgot my name, you might try to remember it (not think it). However, going back to the

Clive wrote: Yes, definitely. Hi, Clive Thanks for the kind confirmation. paco

Clive wrote: My first reaction is to think that 'twenty dollars' seems like a more 'inseparable phrase'. I think of it almost like 'twenty-dollars'. I don't think of 'two hotdogs' in the same way. Perhaps the answer lies along these lines?

Hello I have a question about the usage of "more" with a numeral. I guess "She ate two more hotdogs than her brother" is a more natural construct than "She ate two hotdogs more than her brother". But you would say "She paid twenty dollars more