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it all seems pretty clear now, thanks!

Hello! I found this in a customer's review of the "A Word a Day" book at Amazon.co.uk. Can anyone explain why the line reads "to we English" instead of "to us English"? "As fascinated as I am with all word books, I wish someone had bothered to point out it is written and published in America - ergo ...

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You are right about the "something happened in an unusual way" making sense under certain circumstances but I meant that it would sound odd in this context which I could have stated more clearly though. I guess my not so good command of the language is to blame. However I do think that there are one...

does it have anything to do with this: (?) Section 6.7 also gives several tests for distinguishing between them: * Subject Expressions can appear as the subject (i.e., the NP after the verb) with raising verbs, but not with control verbs. (105-107),(110) * Verbal adjuncts can appear after the V-NP i...

I don't think there's any reason why one might say "something unusually happened" since a more proper structure would be "something happened unusually" and would be equivalent to "something happened in an unusual way" which makes no sense whatsoever. The only elaboration one can make on “something h...

Hi, I hope this is in the right topic... For some reason I came up with the idea of compiling a series of preliminary Michigan Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English tests. However, I am not a native speaker (as it might be evident in my writing) and the tests are bound to be frau...

Hi all! First of all thanks for your feedback. Actually for some reason I came up with an answer resembling that of Andrew Patterson's and JuanTwoThree's right after I read the latter's first post. I had the intention of replying back then but I didn't have enough time. The confusion stems from the ...

Hi! First of all I would like to state that I am relieved to find one such resource on the net. During my teaching career I have come across several phenomena that despite my knowing the correct form I simply cannot explain why this is the case. One such example is the following phrase: "Yesterday w...