Hello Latin Yes, "India, along with China, will be a super power in Asia" means "India and China will be two super powers in Asia". I don’t think we can leave out "along" from "along with" in this case. In my opinion, "India, with China, will be a

There is no great difference between "I went to Paris with my wife" and "I went to Paris along with my wife". They mean "I went to Paris in company with my wife". But please know that we cannot say "India, with China, will be a super power in

You can say "GG is an expert in many areas of linguistics", but you cannot say "GG is a specialist in many areas of linguistics". paco

Thanks, W3. I know this sentence is wrong, but I don't think "for ten days" is particularly wrong, although it might sound a bit more formal than "ten days". The point I find weird in the sentence is that it uses the present perfect in combination

This question is related to the problem which one we should give priority in the subject-verb agreement, the syntactic singularity or the notional plurality. Actually the choice is strongly dependent on speakers, so we cannot say which one is

Nor strangely enough, for a country straight out of toyland, has much of Switzerland. I was once invited to a yodeling club meeting behind a barn, overlooking the Lake of Geneva. (The New York Times, April, 11, 2006) For me, the most captivating

Rotter wrote: I have created a text file and named it 'French(1).txt. So on my system there is a file called/named 'French(1).txt. Would you write 'called' or 'named' in this context? Google search yielded: 957 hits for "I/We/They named the

Ukrainian_Hobbit wrote: what is the use of articles with this particular name? As far as I know, "Geneva Lake" is used without any article, but what about "(the?)Lake of Geneva"? According to the idiotic grammar book we have to use at university

CalifJim wrote: Interpretation b is a highly unusual one. The 'for' clause is normally read as indicating a period of time which ends at the moment of utterance. Hi CJ So you mean the sentence like below sounds weird to you. Right? I'd like to