In America, the expression is "You should be ashamed of yourself." All others are stilted.

Yes, you are quite right, and for exactly the reason you state: "O'clock" = "on the clock" = "on the hour."

Periods are blocks of time within a school day. Classes are the programs that fill the periods. You might have six periods in a school day, four of which are classes, one is a study period, and one is a free period.

If she's drunk a bunch of verbs, we're all in trouble. You could say, "She sounded as if she had drunk a lot of beer." or "She sounds as if she has drunk several bottles of beer." In both cases, we don't know. Beers, the plural, refers to

I'm not sure there's a rule, but "of cancer" is the usual expression. And unless you're describing a story, you'd probably say "Monica died of cancer."

Perfect tenses simply mean the verb's action is complete. With present perfect the action is complete now; with past perfect the action was completed in the past. Present perfect: "I HAVE EATEN my dinner. Now can I have a cookie?" "My

Louisthu is not only confused about your questions, Daniel, but about English grammar in general. Hopefully, this is more helpful: 1. "I insisted she took the money." or "I insisted that she had taken the money." is the sort of statement one

"I had to drive a friend home" and "I had a conversation with Jim this morning" would be correct. "Have had" is the present perfect version and emphasizes the completion of an action: "So why don't you talk to Jim yourself?" "I HAVE had a

American speakers use both forms of the past participle of "get", but not always interchangeably: "She's got to have it." not "She's gotten to have it." "We have gotten lost." not "We have got lost." (Though we do say "We have got/gotten

"mooch" or "cadger"