Hi Chris, Yes, it's perfectly good English, although idiomatic. It's actually a play on words, which I think will become apparent if I give you another example of this particular use of "What price". What price freedom? Here, it

No, it doesn't. To use 'manifested' transitively in such a sentence, you'd have to say something like: "A devastated landscape manifested burned, broken buildings, punctuated by army tents and cannon batteries.", but I

Hi again Troy, Thanks for the whole description, and while not retreating from my opinion that it's a badly written piece of English, it's useful to have the full context. It has evidently been written by someone with a good command of

Hi, You could use either, although 'holding up' is more explicit. 'Holding an umbrella' could also mean 'carrying an umbrella', without opening it up/out. Merry Christmas to you too!

Hi Troy, It's a very sloppily written bit of English, and as a native speaker, I don't know what it means . Of the two alternatives you give, I'd suggest that the first is the writer's intention (but it still makes little sense to

Hi, What do you think the correct answers are? If you'd like to give your own answers here, then I'm sure other members will help you.

Hi Avangi, I'd guess this topic gets an airing on English Forums from time to time, and I remember discussing it a few months back in this post: http://www.englishforums.com/English/SomeoneCorrectEnglish/gmqkx/Post.htm As I said at that time,

Hi Barbara, Yes, I sometimes use it too, usually in the expression 'suss out', and as a synonym for 'figure out' or 'work out'. It's also used in expressions like "I've (finally) sussed it!" meaning

"After initial contact with the die edge and during the application of force, the relative position of the contact tool shall not move vertically such that contact is made with the header/substrate or die attach media. If the tool rides over

No, in my head, it isn't . Were I to accept the underlying idea as true, I'd re-phrase it as: Philosophy and science go are (sometimes/often) in conflict in their search of for truth.