2023年1月9日 · I can write "what a cup is?" as question and I can write "what is a cup?". Are both forms grammatically correct? The former one looking a bit off when …

2020年2月24日 · Something is a pronoun, which is analogous to "a thing", that is an indefinite pronoun. "A/an" is the Old English for "one" and one implies singularity. Thus, I found a thing …

2015年1月7日 · The full-clause form You are correct: how about can also take a full clause with a subject of its own. A common sort of example is “How about we eat at Sparky’s Diner?” …

2020年7月12日 · Avoid the usage in your first two examples - it's dated / poetic, bordering on archaic. We use just or only (or feasibly simply, merely, purely,...) in such contexts today. The …

2020年7月28日 · The answers so far ignore the way that "as" can be followed by a post or role without an article: as president, as secretary, as mediator, as champion, as referee, as …

Using the present perfect (have never done) sounds wrong if the flight is long in the past and the speaker is remembering it. The reason is that it is a present tense - it is talking about how …

What is it? when pointing to her finger. I was surprised because I always learned to ask What is this? when pointing something (or that is there is a need to differentiate the distance, or in …

2016年3月23日 · The preposition "about" generally denotes some kind of circumscribing. That is why you can walk about a place, or talk about something (circumscribing the topic using words).

2014年12月28日 · In this paragraph, does "something is off" mean "something is not right", "something is different" or something else? There was definitely something off about Mr. …

2019年10月1日 · Imagine you are waiting for someone or something to complete a calculation, but you have beat them to it. As you are waiting for them to complete a calculation in the …