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Maybe metal56 can tell us where the original set of exercises came from.

http://www.onelook.com/?w=normalcy&ls=a

http://www.onelook.com/?w=normality&ls=a

You might want to specify whether the target variety is American, British, Australian or some other English. Preposition usage in this context ( street ) do differ according to variety. The following are examples of standard American English: Cars parked "on the street" are cars that are properly pl...

It depends on the context. If you have already made reference to a particular state's gubernatorial (the adjective form of governor ) election, then you could simply say "Mr. Logan was elected governor" (not chief executive ). Without such context, you would say "Mr. Logan was elected governor of Ok...

In the American (U.S.) variety of spoken English, advanced would never be used in this sense. Only promoted would be used.

I fear that the authors of those textbooks are confusing would and wood.

It is perfectly possible to be nostalgic about wood, especially the beautiful old carved decorations in traditional homes in Asia and Europe.

I myself can't get very nostalgic about would.

Just like tenses: pronouns are not Xui's strong suit.

We wish him well in his solitary pursuit. Does it look like a solitary pursuit to you? Indeed it is a solitary pursuit. Nobody else is "pursuing" these silly tense issues but you. You are relentless. All of the others are trying to show you how your pursuits are inevitably wrong and misguided--and ...

I have given an example here: And thus Xui demonstrates his lack of expertise in using tense in a simple, everyday context. After reading all those academic and reference books, why has he never learned the proper tense to introduce an example in English expository prose? Does he not understand wha...

I have nothing to say anymore. Oh, but he has had plenty more to say. He goes on and on and on and on and on... just like the Energizer bunny. Here's my take on Xui: He's a frustrated English learner. He's a frustrated English teacher. He wants so much to be able to understand English like a native...

Xui wrote:I have quoted enough sources to prove my point, while you cannot prove yours. I have nothing to say anymore.

Well, evidently Xui DID have something more to say. And say, and say, and say ad infinitum. Yawn...

'sup bro?

And tomorrow Xui will begin yet another thread to lure native English speakers into extended pseudo-debates on points of grammar that Xui thinks are unclear (well, unclear to him anyway).

We wish him well in his solitary pursuit.

An American might ask, "Does he have lunch?" With lunch as verb, a better alternative might be "Has he lunched?" That sounds silly to me, but lunch can indeed be used as a verb. There is a famous song by Stephen Sondheim with the title "The Ladies Who Lunch". Likewise, dinner is a noun; the verb is ...

Richard indeed has contemplated using the book in the W.C. But he finds that its explanations sometimes contain a hint of truth hidden in the dense and turgid prose. Many of the examples are from reported speech or other realia. I think the examples in the excerpt I quoted were quite good actually, ...