September 2020

Thank you so very much for your replies, David and Gustavo. AppleRead More...

Thank you very much. And sentence 2 was actually a typo I wanted to write "The accident added to my experience." I should've been more careful.Read More...

Hi, Ahmed, "influential" means "capable of exercising influence/having the power to influence," so "powerful" works better than "significant," which usually collocates with more abstract nouns (e.g. significant influence , significant power, significant leadership ). Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English, 2nd edition leader noun 1 person who is in charge of sth adjective influential , key , powerful , prominent , strong , top © Oxford University Press, 2009Read More...

Hi, Ahmed, As we can see in the Ngram Viewer graph above, both "historical heritage" and "historic heritage" are used, but while the former means "heritage from history/related to history," the latter means "valuable heritage" and, that said, I think the former makes more sense, because a heritage is always valuable. What we need to reinforce in your sentence: is the idea that it has a historical value. On GE, there are many postings about pairs of adjectives like historic/historical . In...Read More...

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Thank you very much for helping, i misunderstood the noun phrase as a noun complement, now i understood.Read More...

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Thank you so much David. So d. The best James Bond movies are Sean Connery James Bond movies. The worst James Bond movies are Sean Connery James Bond movies too. e. The best James Bond movies are Sean Connery's James Bond movies. The worst James Bond movies are Sean Connery's James Bond movies too. Mean the same? Then, (e) is ambiguous. It might mean 'The best James Bond movies are Sean Connery's movies' or that 'the best James Bond movies had Sean Connery in them'. Many thanksRead More...

These are essentially interchangeable: - There is no bread at home, so I need to buy some. - There is no bread at home, so I have to buy some. - There is no bread at home, so I should buy some. In other situations, there will be slight distinctions between these phrases, but for simple things like this there really is no difference. They all sound natural and fit the situation well. On the other hand, we usually only use "must" for obligations when the meaning is quite strong; it implies a...Read More...

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Thank you very much! Actually, I wanted to know whether sentences 1) and 2) in the OP were some kind of implied conditionals or not, and from what we have discussed here, it seems that they are.Read More...

Hello, rm, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange. I agree with Gustavo's answer and would simply like to note that the simple present tense is a very natural-sounding alternative to "is to V" and "is for V-ing" in the first example set. The red button turns the machine off. This use of the present tense works when a thing has a set function. Parts of a machine, including specialized buttons on a machine, tend to have set functions. We can ask, "What does this do?"Read More...

Thank you so much. I always appreciate your help.Read More...

Please note that, even when selecting a dish from a menu, you can use the zero article, but in that case no reference is made to the menu. I'll have the macaroni means I'll have the macaroni offered / appearing on the menu.Read More...

Well, just as I told you, you can see an "as"-clause after "as good a man," the meaning of your quote being that Londoners had never seen such a good man as the one Scrooge became.Read More...

Dear Moderator David, I really appreciate your valuable feedback. Thank you very much for taking time out of your tight schedule, and for your instructive examples, which broaden my English knowledge.Read More...

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Hello, Ahmed Imam Attia—If the speaker is referring to a ship, "aboard" is the answer. If the speaker is referring to foreign countries (overseas), "abroad" is.Read More...

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Yes, Ashraful, that's right. But it's also OK to say "how many improvements": (2a) I'll keep trying and see how much improvement I can make. (2b) I'll keep trying and see how many improvements I can make.Read More...

Thank you sir Throught the thread of that question, most of our colleagues tend to choose "c".I also chose "c" 🔵Only c If you choose "b" it gives the possibility that there may be someone is as tall as Ahmed.In other words the same height.Read More...

Hello, May123, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange. The phrase "quite as good" is a postposed adjective phrase (normally, adjective phrases are preposed). It seems to come from a relative clause: - There are many ways of seeing landscapes that are quite as good. It is used in that position because, formed by an adjective and two adverbs (with as modifying good and quite modifying as good ), it would clash with "many" if preposed.Read More...

Thanks so much David, why do we use copied him on (not to this email), do I just memorise this or there is a logic behind we use on this particular instance.Read More...

Hi, Toaha, Do you know the meaning of "plummet"? If you did, you would easily understand that "plummeting" cannot modify "territory."Read More...

Tony, you have to use "money" above (notice there should be a period between both sentences). The term "monies" is only used to mean "amount s of money" mainly in legal and also in financial contexts.Read More...