Hi Kooyeen, I put my arm round him to comfort him. = I put my arm around him to comfort him. Yes, you'll hear both used in British English.. If we put the chairs a bit closer together (= move them nearer to each other ) , we should be able

Hi, You could say any of these, although you'd be unlikely to use 'top four places' for a knock-out competition. 'Top four places' is more appropriate for a league competition. However, they all need a context, and they might

Hi Madhulk, Not exactly; Clark is sweet-talking (i.e. flattering) Lana. He's effectively saying to her: 'the sun can't offer (me) what you can'

Yes, 'walk away' here means what it says. LJ, after being 'dragged in here' (i.e. a room, a building), and 'given a big speech', leaves the room, or the building, as a changed man. Or perhaps he doesn't (LJ seems to be

Hi Abil, I would probably have written it like this: I never thought of going back to my country. However, if I had gone went back perforce or "by mistake", by force of circumstance, I would have joined a progressive political party. By

Hi Vincent, (a) The hare invited the tortoise for to a race. No, you wouldn't use for here. You could use to , but note that, here, " to a race" could also mean an invitation to watch a race, rather than take part in it. (b) The

Hi Grammar Geek, Reading your post above reminds me of the quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw: "England and America are two nations divided by a common language." "it makes it ugly as all get out" Incidentally, my use of

Yes, that would make it grammatical, although I think having 'way' and 'away' in such close proximity in the sentence would make it a tad inelegant: if I were using that form of words, I think I would be more likely to say:

It is incorrect; a native English-speaker would normally say: "walked slowly passed by past the tree / the boy.."

Hi Tuongvan, "Get her way right" here, is non-standard English; the expression should be, Whenever the baby didn't get her own way , she screamed. It means she didn't get what she wanted.