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[missdaredevil]

Dear teachers,
Please help me with some questions I have from reading.

1.A sentence of this type is *said to be* idiomatic.

What does it mean?

2.From the Greek hero Achilles,...one vulnerable part of his body, his *heel*
Should I put an *s* to make it plural?

3.Is it *look at me in the eyes* or *look me in the eyes*?


Thank you so much

[missdaredevil]

1.I am in a race *with* or *aganist* time.

Which one is correct?

2.She has attitudes to advanced to be acceptable *to*.
Can the *to*be omitted?

3.Mary's mom was ahead of her time *in* or *for* wanting to study medicine. Women were expected to stay at home.

4.We are as different as *day and night*.
or
We are as different as *night and day*.

Thank you so much

[CP]

Looks like a double-header today. (Baseball term, meaning play two games in one day.)

1.A sentence of this type is *said to be* idiomatic. People say that a sentence of this type is idiomatic. We call this type of sentence idiomatic.

2.From the Greek hero Achilles,...one vulnerable part of his body, his *heel* Should I put an *s* to make it plural? Usually, no. The Achilles' tendon is named after Achilles, whose heels were the only vulnerable part of him because his mother held him by the heels when she dunked him in a magical solution as a baby. But usually you would say, he is vulnerable in the heel, or in his heel. That's the part of the body, even though we all have two of them.

3.Is it *look at me in the eyes* or *look me in the eyes*? "Look at me, Sheriff! Look me in the eyes! You can see I didn't do it!"

1.I am in a race *with* or *aganist* time. Which one is correct? Both.

2.She has attitudes to advanced to be acceptable *to*. Can the *to*be omitted? The first "to" should be "too"; the second one is fine; the third one should be omitted.

3.Mary's mom was ahead of her time *in* or *for* wanting to study medicine. Women were expected to stay at home. Both are fine.

4.We are as different as *day and night*.
or
We are as different as *night and day*.
You hear it both ways, but it seems to me that you usually hear "night and day" more than "day and night".
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