"My impression of England" is an interesting phrase from the viewpoint of its structure. Most of noun phrases of the form <X's verbal-noun of Y> corresponds to a sentence <X verb Y>. For example "Rome's destruction of Carthage" is

MrPedantic wrote: My dictionary lists both "of" and "from" as acceptable prepositions with "die", but unfortunately doesn't provide any notes on usage! One of my E-J dictionaries says there is a tendency as follows: die of X when X is an

I bought a car which is nice. Insert " colored green " between a car and which , then: I bought a car, colored green, which is nice. I bought a car, which is nice. In this case, which = I bought a car . paco

MyShirley wrote: We should better learn the classroom rules. Is this sentence correct? I'd say: "We should learn more about the classroom rules". paco

Oprah wrote: This sentence seems awkward to me, but I'm not sure how to revise it. "A truly three-dimensional case is simulated and compared with previous experimental data satisfactorily." I think the problem is with the word

Teo wrote: Grammatically conceivable, but nevertheless still unacceptable on grounds of extreme unnaturalness. We do not normally use 'any' with an unmodified countable noun in a simple interrogative of this type (#5, you will observe, is a

Hello Ruslana The question you raised here would be: whether we should choose the tense of an indirectly reported statement to be in agreement with the tense of the reporting clause even in the case we know the reported statement is still now

Nona is right. 'Phosphorus' is the name given to an element P. 'Phosphorous' is an adjective to describe any compounds containing the phosphorus. For example, PCl3 is called 'phosphorous trichloride'. paco

MrPedantic wrote: Paco2004 wrote: Milky wrote: Number 2 is correct if the person is still in Paris. I will be puzzled if I hear someone say "I have gone to Paris" when the speaker

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